Laurel Outlook (Laurel, Mont.) 1909-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
366 issues from 1944 to 1950, published in Laurel, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
Thomas Jefferson “Jeffy” Johns published the first issue of the Laurel Outlook on July 14, 1909, one year after Laurel’s incorporation and three years after the town became a terminal division point for the Northern Pacific Railway. At that time the town was divided into two communities, with the eastern section and the western section both claiming to be the true Laurel. The Outlook served one side and its rival, the Laurel Sentinel, served the other. Outlook editor Johns wanted to avoid conflict, so many of his editorials focused on the only thing the two sides held in common: baseball. This shaped the paper’s independent outlook on social and political issues for years to come. As the first Montana weekly to have its own engraving plant, the Outlook provided its readers with numerous pictures earlier than other Montana weeklies. Joseph Gehrett succeeded Johns as manager and editor and eventually won the paper’s competitive battle with the Sentinel. Gehrett left the paper for a time to pursue publishing in White Sulphur Springs but soon returned with B.L. Price, a lawyer and business partner. In June 1921, Montana Governor Joseph M. Dixon appointed Gehrett as one of Montana’s representatives at the Press Congress of the World, to be held in Honolulu that fall. After Campbell B. Calvert bought out Price’s interest, he and Gehrett continued to run the paper until illness prompted Gehrett to retire in 1953. Calvert took ownership of the paper and continued to run it with his…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Laurel, 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