St. Ignatius Post (St. Ignatius, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
863 issues from 1946 to 1962, published in Saint Ignatius, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1854, Jesuit priests founded the St. Ignatius Mission near the center of what is now the Flathead Indian Reservation, home to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The settlement grew to justify a post office by 1872. The town’s first newspaper, the St. Ignatius Post, started in 1912, and the earliest existing issue of the paper from November 10, 1922, declared that it was “devoted to the interests of St. Ignatius and the Mission Valley.” After it ceased publication in 1927, the town went nearly 20 years without a newspaper until Millard Bullerdick launched the new St. Ignatius Post in 1946. In the first issue on June 20 of that year, the community celebrated with congratulatory announcements and good luck ads.
Bullerdick was the former editor and owner of the Choteau Acantha and an experienced publisher. He launched the Post as a ten-page, six-column weekly paper, focusing its coverage on local happenings, school news, politics, lost dogs, and obituaries. Other news included syndicated national and international articles, comics, women’s interests, and reports about nearby communities, such as Charlo, Moise, Leon, and Arlee. The Post’s run included small supplements and one notable 24-page “Mission Centennial Edition” published on September 23, 1954, with articles and photographs about the history of the tribes in the area and the founding of the St. Ignatius Mission.
The St. Ignatius Post featured extensive coverage of international conflicts and domestic…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saint Ignatius, 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