Printing Firth editors recall early Montana newspapers
The Montana State Editorial Association gathering in Butte recalls pioneer papers. The first Montana Post began in 1864 at Virginia City under Thos J Dimsdale. Early editors include Maguire Blake and Captain Mills. frontier papers moved to Helena and faded. The piece highlights Madisonian Bozeman Chronicle Butte Miner And Inter-Mountain predecessors and Frontier Index at Fort Kearney with its independent editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Butte
Secodactin
Helena
Montana Post
Virginia City
Thos
J. Dimsdale
Vigilantes
H. N. Maguire
James H. Mills
Tilton and Dites
Geo. M. Pinney
Captain Mills
A. H. Beattie
Madisonian
Reeks
Bozeman Chronicle
Sam W. Langhorn
Butte Miner
H. T. Brown
Harry C. Kessler
Butte Inter-Mountain
Butte Post
W. B.‘Hall
C. T. Meader
C.S. Warren
Frontier Index
Fort Kearney
L. R. Freeman
Secretary of War
Missouri
St. Louis
Omaha
Plattsmouth
Nebraska City
Leavenworth
Kan
Intermountain
Wyoming
Utah
Great Plains
Stephen Kearney
Fort Keogh and Miles City Move Westward
The account traces Fort Keogh founded under General Nelson A. Miles after the 1876 In dians massacre, and the 1878 relocation of Miles City to the Tongue River edge. It notes wagon and river transport limits, peril from Indians, a semih weekly mail route from Bismarck, and the spring 1878 townsite shift with a new, ornamented business district and a Miles-named old town.
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Keogh
Miles City
Nelson A. Miles
Fifth
United States Infantry
Yellowstone
Quater
Virgin Wilderness
Miles
Bismarck
Tongue’ River
Tongué River
Palmy Days in Old Ft Benton and Frontier Life
Reminiscences recall Miles City 1878 1881 a rough bustling frontier town with soldiers traders and tenderfoots. The Northern Pacific railroad 1887 reshaped life in Montana tale covers buffalo hides cattle boom Fort Bentons riverfront culture and Meagher and early territorial politics.
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Old
Ft. Benton
Milestown
Northern ‘Pacific
Custer County
Miles City
Montana
State Press association meeting viewed by Montana papers
The Missoulian notes the State Press association meeting as a significant event for both new recruits and old-timers. It lists Montana papers by type totaling 223 with circulation figures for dailies weeklies and monthlies, employment, capital invested, and notes officers including G. Moss and C. S. Warden with others in Missoula Great Falls Whitefish and Chester.
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Missoulian
Missoula
Cedar Creek
Great Falls
Sun River
Ford
Sun River Sun
State Press Association
Industy
Association
G."m. Moss
Whitefish
C. S. Warden
H. O. Weare
Chester
M. J. Hutethir
Boe Weareness
Massive oil merger claim dwarfs industry scale
A New York sourced telegram reports a proposed 500 million dollar oil merger involving U S and international firms. Names include Mutual Oil, Trans Continental Oil, Trans-Ark Oil, Carpathian Oil of Romania, and Trans Oil of Kansas. If true, the Mutual Oil would become the dominant entity.
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New York
Great Falls
United States
South America
Romania
T. R. Crowell
Pittsburgh
Trans-Continental Oil Company
Mutual Oil Company
Mid-Columbia Oil Development
Carpathian Oil Co
Rumania
Trans-Ark Oil and Gas Company
Wyoming
Montana
Trans Oil Company of
Kansas
Columbia
The
Mutual
Vaughn Wheat Crop Promises Heavy Harvest
Reports from Vaughn describe large bumper wheat crops with fields yielding up to 60 bushels per acre. Ole Gunderson’s 200 acre dry land field is prepared for harvesting and expected to produce near the top end of the estimate while neighbors also report excellent grain. No threshing has started yet.
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Vaughn
Ole Gunderson
Gunderson
Fergus Man Demonstrates Dry Land Fruit Growing
Fred Hininger five miles west of Suffolk on Salt Creek road Fergus county proves dry land farms can support apples plums and berries. Orchard on northeast slope uses weed control and intercrops gooseberries currants strawberries. No irrigation water available relies on snow and rain. notes wet season but finds fruit fairs in dry year too.
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Fred Hininger
Suffolk
Salt Creek
Fergus County
Hininger
Hogeland
Fire wipes out Wawa hotel in Muskoka. nine missing
A Lake of Bays blaze last week left nine missing and at least twenty five injured as the Wawa hotel was destroyed. Emergency crews search the site and investigate the cause as authorities confirm casualties and displaced guests.
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Toronto
Lake of Bays
Muskoka
Anniversary of Meagher Birth in Early Montana History
The 100th anniversary of Thomas Francis Meagher birth is noted for his role as a Civil War union officer and early Montana figure. He served as secretary of state, governor pro tem, and Montana named a county in his honor. Meagher was a Young Ireland leader who opposed British rule in 1846-48.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Territory
Edgerton
Thomas Francis Meagher
Capitol
Helena Grounds
Waterford
Ireland
Meagher
Kildare
Stonyhurst College
England
Young Ireland” Party
Paris
Irish Confederation
France
Dublin
van Dieman’s Land
America
New York City
69Th Regiment of
New York Volunteers
Michael Corcoran
Young Ireland
Woman Found Dead in Cabin in Decay State
Mrs Helen McElroy, a familiar figure in the citys Cabbage Patch, was found dead in her cabin at 346 East Mercury Street. The body showed advanced decomposition and flesh hanging from the bones.
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Helen McElroy
Mercury Street
Cabbage Patch
Also Mentioned on This Page
Firth
Territorial
Mili
By Richard R. Kilroy
Gether
Demi Monde
Missouri River
Fort Benton
Head of Navigation
Gioteau
Culbertson
Norris Gray
Jim Bartley
Gulf
Benton
Francis Meagher
Judith Basin
Sam. Gordon
Daily Journal
Thomas Francis. Meagher
Rataeela
Fergus Man
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