Belt Valley Times (Armington, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
273 issues from 1921 to 1926, published in Armington, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first issue of the 8-page, 6-column Belt Valley Times was published on June 21, 1894 in Armington, Montana. Throughout the 1920s, Sumner A. Remington edited and published the paper. Contents of the paper from that time included news of coal mine strikes, bootlegging, railroad strikes, and the fight for county seat. The paper also had a comics page, syndicated fiction, and a section for high school news. Throughout the 1920s, the Times maintained a cheerful outlook in spite of mine closures and the local industrial shift from mining to agriculture.
Sumner’s daughter, Genevieve, who worked for the paper in the 1930s, married Earl L. Mizen in 1940. Sumner Remington retired in 1951 and leased the paper to Earl and Genevieve. They worked on the paper together until Earl’s death a few years later. Genevieve remained publisher until 1976, when she sold the Times to Samuel Levi Butler and his son, Samuel L. Butler Jr. The Butlers purchased the Judith Basin Press the year before. Soon after the sale of the Times, a catastrophic fire caused by a train derailment destroyed several Belt homes and businesses. The Times office, printing equipment, and collection of past issues were all lost. A new office for the paper opened in 1977, and later that year, the Times merged with the Judith Basin Press to become the Press-Times. The publication’s title became the Belt Valley Times again in 1979.
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Armington, Montana, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress