Dean Stone’s Poultry Poetry and Praise for Missoula’ Memorial Day – 1914 Caught on the Run About Town Now doth the busy city hen, with all her main and might, scratch up the neighbor’s flower beds, in which they have delight; and though the patient neighbors plant all their seeds Read More
Over Mullan Pass In An Auto Safely First Through Trip On The New Road Delights Tourist Party Mullan. May 30 – (Special.) – The first automobile eastward bound over the Idaho – Montana divide on the new road between Mullan and Missoula passed through Mullan this week and reached Saltese, Read More
And Gone In A Cloud Of Dust A 51-year-old Missoula landmark, well known to area pilots especially, came down Thursday with a flare that only a 250-ton, 224-foot high structure could provide. Dropped was the stack at the American Crystal Sugar Co. plant, which was closed in 1965. The property Read More
Eugene Debs Speaks in Missoula – 9/8/1923 DEBS SAYS SOCIAL SYSTEM HAS SERVED HISTORIC PURPOSE Speaker Addresses Crowded House at Harnois Theater Last Evening. “I am of the minority which believes that the social system in which we live has fulfilled its historic mission, executed the mandate of history,” said Read More
Deane Jones – KEEPING UP with Jones – on Missoula Bootlegging PROBING OLD STILLS. So your want a story of bootleg days? At least that’s what half a dozen requests indicate. Well, we could open a Pandora’s box by going into that. Every community in America must have hundreds of Read More
Strange Mammal Or Fish Is Seen In Flathead Lake – (1937) Kalispell, May 24. – (Special) A large animal, believed to be a “sea monster” by those who have seen it, has been reported by five persons living around Flathead lake. The animal was last reported by two persons at Read More
Story of Old-Time Bar Room Antics Related After “Wild West Bad Man” Is Squelched by Strong Arm of Law After taps were sounded on a purported old Wild West effort to make patrons of a Bonner beer parlor dance the can-can Wednesday night, a story of a 50-mile-an-hour fist fight Read More
Clock Shooter Pays $100 for Moment’s Fun Mechanic Fined After Plea Of Guilty to “Killing Time” at Bar. It cost J. B. Topp, Yakima, Wash., mechanic, just $100 to kill time in Missoula Thursday night. Time’s sudden demise came at the Rex bar when Topp pumped three bullets into a Read More
First Bathtub in Missoula Dear Oracle: You ask if any one knows who brought the first bathtub into Missoula. Personally I do not, but an old-timer friend, Major Andrew Swaney, who lived in Missoula those days, thinks the honor belongs to J. P. (‘Jimmie”) Reinhard, who imported one via Corrinne Read More
Year Without Zero Goes Into History [1925] Missoula Favored Spot in United States; Record Is Established At the stroke of midnight when the old year passed out of existence and 1925 became a memory, it marked the passing of perhaps the first year in history that western Montana was without Read More