The Circle Banner (Circle, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
445 issues from 1914 to 1924, published in Circle, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
Ben M. Larson first published The Circle Banner on November 27, 1914, in Circle, Montana. Larson hailed from Bagley, Minnesota. There he learned the printer’s trade as “printer’s devil” for Fred S. Kalberg’s Clearwater Crystal. In 1913, Kalberg headed to eastern Montana and decided to establish the Redwater Valley Pioneer in Circle. Kalberg hired Larson to set up and produce the Pioneer while he closed out his newspaper in Minnesota. In late 1914, Larson began his own newspaper. He quit the Pioneer and bought printing equipment from a recently closed Wolf Point paper. Publication of the Circle Banner began soon after in its own newly constructed building. In his first editorial, Larson promised “… we shall at all times try to do our very best to give everyone a square deal and help boost for the Redwater Valley and above all–Circle.”
The eight-page, six-column weekly focused on Circle’s growth in its early years, printing headlines such as “Circle Gets Feed Mill” and “Miller Building Law Office.” News concerning Circle and surrounding communities such as Brockway often appeared on the front page. From page two forward, state, national, and international news appeared beside other ready print. The editorial space and masthead shared the last page with small local items, miscellany, and additional national news.
A blind optimism for Circle’s future characterized the paper’s outlook in its early years. This enthusiasm was only slightly dampened by war news once the United…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Circle, 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