Missoulian – The Vicissitudes of Life – 1892
The Vicissitudes of Life
The Missoulian succumbs to the prevailing depression of business affairs existing in this city and will on Tuesday next issue in much smaller form than the present number. This change is imperative in the belief that the MISSOULIAN cannot stand the dull season now upon us without retrenchment, and is made to avoid a total collapse which otherwise is inevitable. Missoula cannot support the MISSOULIAN as we would like to run it, consequently we must put up with an inferior paper. Nonpareil papers in pica towns are not a success and as we have no millionaires behind us, we must do the next best thing – cut down in keeping with our income, or shut up shop altogether. No one more than we regrets this radical and sudden change and we only hope the time is not far distant when we will again be able to appear with wings outspread and tail feathers extended. For the present we throw up both hands promising our patrons as good a newspaper as our circumstances will permit.
With this issue also, retire Mr. H. O. Collins, editor of this paper, who has well and faithfully served it, Mr. J. D. Ruff, city editor, H. A. Lambert, bookkeeper, and several other trusted employes of the concern whom the vicissitudes of circumstances have ruthlessly deprived of their occupation and whose regrets at parting are no greater than those of the management of this paper.
The above article appeared in the December 11, 1892 Morning Missoulian.