500 Dolls Are Shown During Week at Parks Oldest One Is 180 Years. Sandra Pritchard Is Owner. More than 500 dolls were on display in the various parks when the Missoula recreation department sponsored a community doll show in Bonner, Franklin, Kiwanis, North Side and West Side parks Friday evening. Read More
Defense Council In Every Town County Organization Plans to Form Subordinate Bodies Letters To Citizens Local Society Assists in Reaching Communities With News. In accordance with a recent decision of the State Council of Defense to the effect that all County Councils of Defense in the state of Montana should Read More
Country Club Caddies Hit By I. W. W. Fever Strike Inaugurated Demands Including Caddy House and Three Meals Day. Evidence that the strike fever is contagious was shown yesterday when it became known that more than 20 caddies at the Missoula Country club struck for three meals a day and Read More
Too Much Jiu Jitsu For O’Donnell Jap Tells How He Captured A Burglar Who Was In His Bedroom. Michael O’Donnell was found guilty of burglary yesterday afternoon in the district court and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Deputy Ed Larsen left last night with the prisoner for Read More
How “Coeur D’Alene Jack” Was Taken To Eagle City Story of Gold-Stampede Baby; Mining Rushes of Another Day Called Men of Western Montana Death of McLin Arouses Memories of Long Ago; Will Cave Tells Tales. By Will Cave. Contemplating stampedes whose active principles have been the reports of discovery of Read More
Missoula Milestones by Ed Erlandson Every year newspapermen select the top stories or events of the preceding year, and the list varies from newspaper to newspaper, usually influenced by the geographical location of the paper compiling the list. To the best of my knowledge I have not seen a list Read More
Marcus Daly’s Nephew ‘Jimmie’ Shields Shot By Wife – “Has Been Pretty Wild” One of the most highly publicized crimes in Missoula happened in 1900, when Mrs. James Shields (Ethel Duchemin) shot her husband on Higgins Avenue. While her husband did not die of his wounds, it nevertheless became sensational Read More
“Fish Creek Ghost” – Story Revived– Missoulian 3/18/1922 Dr. Thaddeus L. Bolton Connects Western Montana Family With Apparition At Antigonish, N. S. Former University Professor Talks of Incidents Seven Years Ago. Family Name Is Not Same Gossage and Not MacDonald Figured in Mineral County Wraith Episode. By the Associated Press Read More
Paul Brunner Accidently killed on ‘Kelley Island’ – 1932 Missoula Man Is Victim of Gun Accident Paul Brunner Killed When His Rifle Is Discharged On Island in Missoula River West of City Was Employe of Local Bakery Officials Forced to Ford River to Bring Body of Well Known Missoulian Back Read More
Arch Foe of “Modern Dances” Takes It All Back, Says the City Attorney Mr. Wallace Reports to Council That Anti-Ragging Element Has Been Converted. The anti-ragging element as represented by 18 signers of a petition presented to the council last week, has been converted to the ethics of the modern Read More