Ruth Marie Hladik – Missoula’s First Female Pilot Missoula’s first female pilot, Ruth Marie Hladik, got her introduction to flying early in 1928 from Missoula’s Bob Johnson. She was hooked. While growing up in Missoula, she briefly attended school at the University of Montana, then later moved to Butte after Read More
Missoula Girls Run Packtrain Up Rattlesnake Edith, Mary and Viola Paslay[1] Do Work Very Unusual for Women Stove Over the Hills Heavy Range Among Material Transported to Workers of Water Company Women, in the past few years, have entered what were thought of as men’s fields exclusively. Some have chosen Read More
Former Missoulian recalls early history of the area By Roberta Donovan The ceremony, with long speeches by important-looking men, meant very little to the 9-year-old Lizzie Schilling. She watched as one of the men took a spade and dug a little of the soil in the open meadow where the Read More
Edith Foltz Stearns – Important Early Pilot & Instructor Aviatrices Meet Here, “Talk Shop” Two women, well known nationally in aviation circles, met in Missoula Friday. One as a guest and the other as hostess. The guest was the former Ruth Law, said to be the first woman to do Read More
Florence Kelley Speaks in Missoula – 1915 For The Children Should Women Be Voters Mrs. Kelley of New York Asks Help in Obtaining Universal Franchise As an emissary from the discouraged suffragists of the east to the triumphant votes-for-women advocates of Montana, Mrs. Florence Kelley of New York, for years Read More
Sisters, Widely Traveled on Opposite Sides of World Are Reunited In City of Childhood The strange fortunes of war have struck heavily at a one-time Missoula family, which is now partly reunited in the town in which it lived so many years ago. Mr. Bjarne Leed of Honolulu, T. H., Read More
Emma Goldman in Missoula – “I am dangerous to ignorance and stupidity.” Queen of the Anarchists Expresses Views In Newspaper Interview Characterized though she may have been as “dangerous” by governmental authority, and shadowed by police of many cities, nevertheless Emma Goldman looked humanely inoffensive last evening as she sat Read More
Missoula Girl Bums Causing Trouble – 1942 Missoula high school girls, with an intense desire to cheer for their team, but with no money, are causing railroad officials here trouble in their efforts to “ride the blinds” and “beat their way” to football games in nearby cities. Few trains leaving Read More
Eunice Morris Brown – A Colorful Life Missoula – Eunice Morris Brown, 101, died Saturday, Jan. 18, with courage and dignity among family and friends. She was born in Missoula on Dec. 8, 1895, the daughter of Will and Ella Morris. Growing up on a ranch in Potomac, she cared Read More
Missoula Girl a Musical Genius – 1920 A picture of Miss Carol Abernathy appeared in the Missoulian on August 20, 1920 with the following caption: Miss Carol Abernathy, little daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Austin Abernathy, shows unusual musical talent. And it is prophesied by her teacher of violin, Prof. Read More