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Notorious Montana newspaper feuds and daring newsroom pranks
Inside Montana journalism history a sequence of bold tales from Helena and Billings recounts rival Montana Daily Record clashes with the Helena Independent and Herald. It details sounder tricks, pilfered telegraph news, trap journalism by Charles T. Shearer, team play on football telecasts, and mailroom mischief amid early 20th century press battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena Daily Record
McKinley
Independent
Colonel Shearer
Helena Herald
Mr. Dana
Annals of
Montana
Montana Daily Record
Helena
William McKinley
Publishers Press
Record
Associated Press
E A. P
Helena Independent
Bent
Buffalo
N. Y
Daily Record
Leon Shaw
Billings Gazette
Albert Hawkins
John C. Derks
Telegraph
Peterson
Telegraph Instrument
Record Office
Shaw
Harry Yaeger
The
Yaeger
A. P
Derks
Hawkins
Oregonian
Salt Lake Tribune
Federal Reserve Bank
Minneapolis
Lewistown
Great Falls
Federal Reserve Bank Post
Shearer
the Herald
Herald
Herald Telegraph
Telegraph News
Montana Record- Herald
Butte
Inter Mountain
Butte Evening Post
Los Angeles
Broadwater
United States
Thomas H. Carter
Harmon
San Francisco
Herrick Swan
Billings
Palis High School
Chai- Swan
Gazette
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Swan
Chicago
New York
Jack Herford
O. B. Prickett
Prickett
Herford
France
Fred Kesselrath
United States Postal Service
Kesselruth