Courthouse Yarns – Cum Grano Salis – 1905

Courthouse Yarns – “To Be Taken Cum Grano Salis” – 1905 He Also Relates Some Wonders Records Will Have To Be Produced To Make Them Believed. Eddie Foy, the famous comedian, once made a hit when he sang in his inimitable style a comic song the refrain of which began Read More

August Trautwein of Big Flat Murdered – 1885

August Troutwein Murdered – 1885 Information reached town yesterday afternoon that a young German named August Troutwein, living in the bend about eight miles below town across the river, had been found in the road near his place shot through the head. He had two sheaves of oats by him Read More

Senator Dixon’s 1910 Bill – Sale of Flathead Reservation Land

Senator Dixon’s Bill – Flathead Lake Lots To Highest Bidder – 1910   To Sell Land To Highest Bidder Two and Five Acre Tracts On Flathead Lake May Be Disposed Of. Terms Of Dixon’s Bill Property May Be Purchased on the Borders of Lake in Reservation and Sixty Acres of Read More

County Poor Farm Sold 1961

The County’s Poor – 1894 A Recent Visit To The Rattlesnake Farm A Word About The Inmates Interesting Peculiarities of Some of the Dependents Upon Public Charity. Through the courtesy of County Auditor Angevine, a Missoulian reporter was recently enabled to make a tour of inspection of the county poor Read More

Doll Show – 1937 (500 Dolls – one is 150 Years Old)

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 Councils – 1918 – Patriotism Gone Awry

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

Strikers – 20 in Missoula – 1,000 in Butte

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 – 1905

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” baby went to Eagle City – 1884

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