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History. On September 12, 1928 the Anaconda Standard merged with Butte Miner to form The Montana Standard. [3] At the time it was owned by the Anaconda Company. [4] In 1959, It was sold to Lee Enterprises. [4] In 1971, under the leadership of Betty Danfield, the paper's women's section won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence. [5]
Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.
Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. [167] The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper. [168]
Kearney wrote occasional news and sports articles for The Montana Standard up until his death, the final one about the 100th football game between Butte High and Billings Senior High School in 2014. He was also devoted to recording Butte's history as the Anaconda Copper era ended.
Durston Building, Anaconda William A. Clark - The Anaconda Standard political cartoon, 28 Oct 1900 This is a list of newspapers in Montana . Current news publications
1914 Butte, Montana, labor riots. Union hall of the Western Federation of Miners local at Butte, Montana, after its destruction by dissident miners on 23 June 1914. The Butte, Montana labor riots of 1914 were a series of violent clashes between copper miners at Butte, Montana. The opposing factions were the miners dissatisfied with the Western ...
Mullen Newspaper Company. Mullen Newspaper Company is a privately owned publisher of daily, non-daily and weekly newspapers based in Deer Lodge, Montana, United States. With 20 publications, the publisher operates in six states, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, and Washington. [1]
Anaconda Road massacre. On April 21, 1920, during a miners strike in Butte, Montana 's copper mines, company guards fired on striking miners picketing near a mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, killing Tom Manning and injuring sixteen others, an event known as the Anaconda Road massacre. His death went unpunished.