First Cars Appear On Streets After what was described as “long and anxious expectation,” Missoula’s first automobile arrived in the city April 17, 1901. The “modern conveyance” arrived from an eastern factory for the Missoula Mercantile Co. and “speedy work” was started immediately to put the machine in condition for Read More
Brief from Hamilton paper – The Western News on July 4, 1900 “A deed has been filed at Missoula transferring from R. M. Cobban and wife to W. A. Clark, for $62,500.50, several thousand acres of timberland in the Blackfoot country and in the Bitter Root valley.” No Read More
A script for the motion picture “The Story of Montana” by Peter Wade appears in The Motion Picture Story Magazine (August of 1912) linked below on p. 81. Check it out! Missoula hasn’t been the same since. https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturesto04moti#page/n89/mode/2up
Hell Gate Pageant Opens in Missoula Missoulians of the last century were fond of pageants. A Spokesman Review article on August 3, 1960 takes note of a Missoula pageant, Hell Gate Holidays, which involved 850 actors at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. In celebration of Missoula’s first century, the pageant began Read More
STORY OF “JEFF” WILLSEY FIT TO MAKE ANGELS WEEP Deer Lodge, July 5 – (Special.) – If some reporter, who writes the heart throb stories for the Sunday papers is looking for the makings of a good story, one so full of pathos that it is bound to Read More
THE ANGEL IN MY KITCHEN – A TEN MINUTE, TRUE STORY. by Steve Saroff Dec. 15, 2013 All my life I have been lucky enough to pay attention to small things. Moods, memories, feelings. I have been trained and worked as a scientist and an Read More
Get Right With God Evangelist Oscar Lowry at Missoula http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025316/1911-02-06/ed-1/seq-1/ 2/6/1911 The Missoulian headline read “Greatest Revival Campaign Ever Conducted In Montana Closed By Evangelist Lowry.” It marked the end of five weeks of ceremony that the famed evangelist, Oscar Lowry, conducted in Read More
A Turtle On The Rampage. Last Wednesday a lady living below Frenchtown was horrified on seeing a great shock of wheat apparently undoing itself by falling all around and a particular sheaf leaving the others and moving away at a slow pace from the wheat patch towards the Read More
Missoula Thanksgiving – 1891 The following 2 articles appeared in the Missoula Gazette, November 25, 1891. This was not the Missoulian newspaper. Why We Are Thankful. When the sun looks over the mountains tomorrow morning on Missoula it will look on a fairly prosperous people. Read More
A movement is on foot to colonize a number of Jews from Russia in the Flathead country. They are said to be good farmers. There is abundant room in Montana for thrifty, enterprising farmers and mechanics. They can do well and make money. For peanut merchants and shoe string Read More