3,000 came to hear him preach – “Rev. John N. Maclean” critique of famed evangelist Oscar Lowry – 1911

    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 – 1890

  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

  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

Flathead Russian Jewish Colony – 1891

  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

A Big Missoula Bear going to the world’s fair – 1891

  A Bear as Is a Bear   While the local ramrods are talking about hunting bear they should go to the store of the Tuttle Manufacturing company and see there displayed the hide of the king of all. Ursus Majoris it is in fact as well as name, and Read More

Criminal Law & Moving Picture Shows – State v Penny – 1910

The defendant was convicted and fined in Missoula county for keeping open and maintaining a theater on Sunday, contrary to provisions of section 8369 of the Revised Codes. That section reads as follows: “Every person who on Sunday, or the first day of the week, keeps open or maintains or Read More

He Had a Gay Time – 1900

  He Had a Gay Time   Alex. Harley, a lumberman from Kendall’s saw mill, near Bonita, this morning filed a complaint before Justice Hayes charging a box-rustler in a resort of the city with robbing him of $35 in gold last night while he was under the influence of Read More

Missoula’s Quota of Liars – 1900

    This office is in receipt of an interesting library of three volumes entitled “Report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate Relating to the Right and Title of William A. Clark to a Seat as Senator from the State of Montana.” Aside from Read More