The Poplar Standard (Poplar, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,422 issues from 1910 to 1963, published in Poplar, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
G.H. Coulter published the first issue of the weekly Poplar Standard on May 12, 1910, declaring that “we will endeavor to give the patrons of the paper a good, newsy paper, and will boost for Poplar, its business interests, the opening of the Ft. Peck Indian reservation and all matters of moment in connection with the same.” The early issues of the paper held true to that sentiment, printing a variety of local, state, and national news, and promoting the settlement of lands within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation open to non-tribal members.
The Standard changed ownership a handful of times until Claude Carpenter & Dennis Delger took control in 1926 after first leasing the paper for a year. Delger went on to take full ownership in 1941 and operated the paper for another five years. Under Carpenter and Delger, the Poplar Standard continued to focus on community news and northeastern Montana. The publishers called it the official paper of Roosevelt County and gave readers stories and updates on the small towns in the area, including Bainville, Brockton, Froid, Mona, and Vida. It also covered school news and included a special monthly section from Poplar High School called the Popular Pep and later named the P. H. S. Wowapi. The Standard paid scant attention to tribal news, instead filling the paper with news of politics and agricultural development, as well as extras like serials and photographs.
In 1946, Harry N. Downs and Mike Vukelich, who a year earlier purchased the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Poplar, 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