THE BUTTE DAILY POST - BUTTE, MONTANA - SUNDAY COMICS

Description: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: From 1950*** THEBUTTE DAILY POST *** BUTTE, MONTANASUNDAY COMICS This auction is for a wonderful vintage copy ofthe Sunday comics, from October 14, 1950. This comes to us from theButte Daily Post, which was issued in Butte, Montana, until 1961. Comics included in this issue are as follows: The NutBros; Our Boarding House with Major Hoople; Out our Way with the Willets;The Comic Zoo; this Curious World; Righterong?; Freckles and his Friends;Hector; Colonel Potterby and the Duchess; and last but by no means least:BLONDIE. About The Butte Daily Post (Butte, Mont.)1913-1961:In January 1913, JohnDurston, long-time editor of the powerful Anaconda (Montana) Standard, reconstitutedthe Butte Inter Mountain as the ButteDaily Post, a seven-column, 16-page daily. National news filled the frontpage of the Post, often at the expense of local stories that mightreveal the dominance of the paper’s owner, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company,in state politics.From 1914 to 1921,labor unrest dominated the pages of the Post. The paper condemnedthe activities of the Industrial Workers of the World and blamed strikingminers for slowing the production of copper needed for the war effort. WhenCongresswoman Jeannette Rankin condemned the Anaconda Company for provokingturmoil in Butte, the Post retaliated with political attacks.On June 9, 1917, thepaper carried the horrific details of the Granite Mountain/Speculator MineFire–the worst hard rock mining disaster in American history. Labor unrestfollowed, and on August 1, several masked men dragged union activist FrankLittle (1879-1917) from his hotel and hanged him from a rail trestle. Acoroner’s inquest failed to identify the killers. During the year after theSpeculator disaster, some 67 men died in the mines, but the Post‘scoverage of these deaths was minimal. In 1921, the Anaconda Company institutedan open shop system, dealing a crippling blow to organized labor in Butte fromwhich it would not recover for over a decade.In 1924, the AnacondaCompany worked to unseat progressive Governor Joseph Dixon. When the company’snewspaper, the Butte Daily Post, ran stories critical of theseefforts, Editor John Durston was reprimanded. Shortly after, Durston retiredfrom the newspaper. Later in life, Durston lamented the failure of Montanajournalism to illuminate the powerful forces as work in local and stateaffairs. The Butte Daily Post finally halted publication in1961, when the newspapers owned by the Anaconda Company were purchased by LeeEnterprises.ProvidedBy: Montana Historical Society, Helena, MTButte is the county seat of SilverBow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governmentsconsolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718square miles (1,860 km2), and, according to the 2010census, has a population of 33,503, making itMontana's fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM.Established in 1864 as a mining camp in thenorthern Rocky Mountains onthe Continental Divide, Butte experiencedrapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first majorindustrial city.[5] In itsheyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one ofthe largest copper boomtowns inthe American West. Employmentopportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants,particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Buttehas the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States.Condition is as follows: Thiswonderful piece of ephemera, is in clean condition. With slightlytouched corners, a few edge tears and a few small tears at the folds. This "Newspaper Comic," section has been folded. Approximate dimensions are as follows: 16 7/8" x 11 1/2"Fully opened: 33 3/4" x 22 3/4" Please take a look at the provided Photographsfor a better view of the written description. PLEASE READ Please complete checkout before makingpayment, it will make this whole process, much easier . Per eBay's direction we are allowed tooffer one method for payment: That method is: PayPal. If this method is a hardship for you, thenplease contact us for accepted alternative payment methods.We will gladly combine shipping formultiple items which close within 48 hours of theoriginal purchase. In order to take advantage of this reducedshipping rate, please make one payment for all combined items, otherwiseall purchases will be treated individually and shipped accordingly. We willcordially leave you feedback, when we receive feedback from you,which will let us know that you have received your purchase.

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