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Newspaper The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961 Missoulian / Sunday Missoulian / Missoulian-sentinel

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

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

About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961

Other Title

  • Missoulian
  • Sunday Missoulian
  • Missoulian-sentinel

Dates of Publication

  • 1904-1961

Created / Published

  • Missoula, Mont. : Missoulian Pub. Co., -1961.

Headings

  • -  Missoula (Mont.)--Newspapers
  • -  Montana--Missoula
  • -  United States--Montana--Missoula--Missoula

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Daily
  • -  -89th year, no. 113 (Sept. 12, 1961).
  • -  Began in Nov. 1904.
  • -  Sunday edition, Dec. 26, 1920-Nov. 6, 1949, called: Sunday Missoulian.
  • -  Saturday edition, May 14, 1960-Sept. 9, 1961, published in combined issue with Missoula sentinel, called: Missoulian-sentinel.
  • -  "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).
  • -  Missoulian (Missoula, Mont. : Daily : 1961) 0746-4495 (DLC)sn 83004588 (OCoLC)10049426

Medium

  • 59 volumes : illustrations ; 57 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn83025316

OCLC Number

  • 9385382

ISSN Number

  • 2329-5457

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The Daily Missoulian Missoula, Mont. -1961. (Missoula, MT), Jan. 1 1904. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025316/.

APA citation style:

(1904, January 1) The Daily Missoulian Missoula, Mont. -1961. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83025316/.

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The Daily Missoulian Missoula, Mont. -1961. (Missoula, MT) 1 Jan. 1904. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn83025316/.