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About The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961
Missoula, Mont. (1904-1961)

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Title:
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] : (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961
Alternative Titles:
  • Missoulian June 6, 1910-Mar. 15, 1915
  • Missoulian-sentinel
  • Sunday Missoulian
Place of publication:
Missoula, Mont.
Geographic coverage:
  • Missoula, Missoula, Montana  |  View more titles from this: City County, State
Publisher:
Missoulian Pub. Co.
Dates of publication:
1904-1961
Description:
  • -89th year, no. 113 (Sept. 12, 1961).
  • Began in Nov. 1904.
Frequency:
Daily
Language:
  • English
Subjects:
  • Missoula (Mont.)--Newspapers.
  • Montana--Missoula.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01210237
Notes:
  • "Republican," [1904-1912]; "Progressive, " [1913-1914]; "independent, " [1915-1961]. Cf. Ayer, 1912, Missoula city directories.
  • Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.
  • Description based on: Vol. 31, no. 173 (Nov. 15, 1904).
  • Saturday edition, May 14, 1960-Sept. 9, 1961, published in combined issue with Missoula sentinel, called: Missoulian-sentinel.
  • Sunday edition, Dec. 26, 1920-Nov. 6, 1949, called: Sunday Missoulian.
LCCN:
sn 83025316
OCLC:
9385382
ISSN:
2329-5457
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The Daily Missoulian

The ten-page, seven-column Missoulian represents the oldest continuously operating newspaper in Montana, publishing its first issue in 1873. In 1902, Harry O. Collins formed the Missoulian Publishing Company and remained editor of the Missoulian until he sold the newspaper to Joseph M. Dixon, Montana congressman and later governor of the state. Dixon hired Arthur Stone, a former Democratic state legislator and future dean of the journalism school at the University of Montana at Missoula, to edit the Missoulian.

The daily newspaper covered both national and international news with stories from the Associated Press, as well as providing local news about the university and stories promoting both the lumbering industry and agricultural interests to the south in the Bitterroot Valley and to the north in the Flathead/Mission Valleys. Dixon, a Progressive politician who managed Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Presidential campaign in 1912, also called for the opening of the Flathead Indian Reservation to white homesteaders in 1910. The Missoulian published a holiday edition promoting Missoula's business opportunities and those related to both farming and logging. Dixon's affiliation with Roosevelt and his call for a new tax on the mining industry and regulation of utility rates angered Amalgamated Copper (later the Anaconda Company). In 1926, the Anaconda Company purchased the Missoulian, one of a dozen newspapers it owned, evidence of the enormous control the industry exerted over the daily press in Montana.

Provided by: Montana Historical Society; Helena, MT