Missoulian newspaper

“Who is the most perfect physical specimen of young womanhood in Missoula or western Montana?" The question was posed 100 years ago by The Daily Missoulian newspaper, in launching its “sequel to Miss America.”

It’s amazing how much you can discover about a community from a single page of a local newspaper. For example, I offer up the “local” page of the July 3rd Missoulian from 1896.