The Butte Daily Bulletin (Butte, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
575 issues from 1919 to 1920, published in Butte, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The emergence of the Butte Daily Bulletin can be linked to the turbulent events in Butte during the summer and autumn of 1917: the Speculator Mine fire killing 168 miners; the organizing activities of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) throughout the Pacific Northwest and the brutal murder of IWW organizer Frank Little in Butte; and the formation of the Montana Council of Defense, which was organized to rout out individuals guilty of sedition and espionage and which supported by the Anaconda Company as part of its “captive press” to silence labor unions and those opposed to participation in World War I. In December 1917, the Butte Daily Bulletin hit the streets as a reaction to these developments.
A group of progressive politicians, including Burton K. Wheeler (U.S. Attorney in Butte and future U.S. Senator from Montana) and James A. Murray (independent mine owner and uncle of James E. Murray, future U.S. Senator from Montana) joined forces with William F. Dunne, an electrical worker and union militant and R. Bruce Smith, president of the Butte Typographical Union, to publish the eight-page, seven-column weekly newspaper that grew out of the Strike Bulletin, published irregularly beginning in June 1917. The newspaper became a daily in August 1918. The motto of the Bulletin appeared in bold letters on the masthead:
During the 1918 election campaign, the Silver Bow County Council of Defense used newsprint shortages declared by the U.S. War Industries Board to…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Butte, 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