1st Auto Over Gibbon’s Pass – 1907 – Dinsmore, Thompson and Smith

First Car Over Gibbon’s Pass – 1907 Up the Steep Pitch of Gibbon Pass and Into the Big Hole in an Auto Remarkable Trip of a Missoula Car and Three Boys Who Stayed With It in as Difficult a Ride as Was Ever Undertaken in an Automobile Anywhere. At 9 Read More

“A merry show while it lasted” – 1907

Myrtle Wilcox Goes To Wallace – She Takes Clarence With Her And Bennett Hikes Out For Salt Lake Missoula has probably seen the last of the principals in the Wilcox seriocomic performance that held the boards in the county jail and in the court of Justice Phillips for a while Read More

Missoula’s Deadly Garbage – 1903

Missoula’s Deadly Garbage – 1903 City Will Have A New Dump Napoleon Reeves Complains to the Council That He Has Lost Three Cows. Missoula, July 14. – The city is to have a new dump for its garbage. Napoleon Reeves appeared before the council on Monday evening with a very Read More

Pathetic Story of a Faithful Dog – 1901

Story of Faithful Dog – 1901 Faithful Unto Death Pathetic Story of a Dog Who Guarded Dead Master. Is Now in Missoula Where He Was Brought by Widow of Man Who Was Frozen to Death. Yesterday morning there alighted from the east-bound train a lady and a dog that will Read More

Mayor Shoup Won’t Sell Island – 1967

Mayor Says Island Not Up for Sale by Denn Curran Mayor Richard G. Shoup announced late Tuesday that city land offered for sale to finance acquisition of land for a new city hall will not include the so-called island – the land underneath and east and west of the Higgins Read More

Dozens of Ladies Wait In Street – 1900

Northsiders Blocked – 1900 Considerable complaint has been heard lately from residents of the north side over the poor light service given them. For the past week the electric light at the Higgins avenue crossing has refused to burn later than 8 o’clock, and the one at the corner of Read More

Conductor Spoils Elopement of 13 Year Old – 1900

Old Man Was Too Many An Elopement Spoiled by the Girl’s Father She Is Only Thirteen The Couple Drove to Saltese – There the Train Crew, Taking Sides With the Father, Handcuffed the Lover to a Seat Missoula, March 21 – There is one man in Missoula county who has Read More

Missoula’s 1st Night Flying – 1934

Missoula Airport Lighting Contract Let $53,000 Cost of Job; Meets U. S. Demands Both Ends of Two Runways to Be Illuminated; Huge Beacon Light to Be Installed Near City. To Permit Night Airmail Service One Step in Illumination of the Entire Northern Route, Now Under Way By Federal Government. Missoula Read More

Nazis & Fascists 1935 – Duping the People – Appeal to “lower emotions”

Club Hears of Social Europe From Professor – 1935 Dr. S. Stephenson Smith Relates Rise of Fascism and Naziism. The rise of two men, both World war veterans; one a post-war publisher, the other showing symptoms of later frenzied developments, was revealed to Kiwanians at their Grill café luncheon meeting Read More

First Truck Built In Missoula – 1926

Automobile Truck Built in Missoula Local Refinery Company Completes First Model of New Motor. For perhaps the first time in history an automobile truck has been built and assembled in Missoula. The truck was designed by C. W. Hart of the Hart Refineries here and is for general use of Read More