Bozeman Daily Chronicle

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle
TypeDaily newspaper
OwnerAdams Publishing Group
FounderS.W. Langhorne
Founded1883
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersBozeman, Montana
Circulation8,648 (as of 2021)[1]
Sister newspapersBelgrade News
Websitebozemandailychronicle.com

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle is a daily newspaper published in Bozeman, Montana.

History

In 1883, The Weekly Chronicle was first published by Sam W. Langhorne in Bozeman, Montana.[2] Later that year it expanded into a daily and relaunched as the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.[3] It was soon purchased by A.K. Yerkes.[4] Charles S. Fell became a co-owner in 1891.[5]

The two men sold the Chronicle in 1899 to David Marks on behalf of undisclosed buyers for $11,000.[6] The new owner was later revealed to be businessman Marcus Daly, who had also recently acquired the Livingston Enterprise.[7][8] Daly died in November 1900.[9] His estate sold the Chronicle two years later to William McClure Bole, who had edited the paper for the past two years and previously worked at the Great Falls Tribune.[10]

Bole and Oliver Sherman Warden purchased the Great Falls Tribune in 1905[11][12] and sold his Bozeman paper in 1907. Decades later Bole was inducted into the Montana Newspaper Hall of Fame.[12] The new Chronicle owners were Bole's brother James P. Bole and H.W. Howard. J.P. Bole published the Chronicle until his death in 1940.[13]

In 1946, Jefferson and M.C. Jones acquired the paper,[14] and then sold it in 1954 to the Scripps League Newspapers. After the sale, Jones. G. Nicholas Ifft III was named general manager.[15] Pioneer Newspapers split off from Scripps in 1975 and took the Chronicle with it.[16] In 2017, the company sold all of its papers to Adams Publishing Group.[17]

Content

It is noted by many of its residents and non-residents to have an entertaining Police Reports section, which includes "many minor crimes of a more humorous or absurd nature".[citation needed] In 2011, they published a book, We Don't Make This Stuff Up, a compilation of over 30 years of some of these crimes.[18]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Montana Circulation Map" (PDF). Adams Publishing Group. May 1, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Notice". The Anaconda Recorder and New Northwest. Anaconda, Montana. February 2, 1883. p. 2.
  3. ↑ "Local News". Daily Herald. Billings, Montana. November 2, 1883. p. 3.
  4. ↑ ""There's Something Wrong Somewhere."". The Livingston Enterprise. December 6, 1884. p. 2.
  5. ↑ "Such Is Fame". The Bozeman Courier. March 12, 1891. p. 2.
  6. ↑ "Bozeman Chronicle Sold". The Butte Weekly Miner. October 19, 1899. p. 6.
  7. ↑ "The Clark-Daly Feud". Midland Empire News. Billings, Montana. October 20, 1899. p. 4.
  8. ↑ "Notice". The Silver State Post. Deer Lodge, Montana. November 1, 1899. p. 2.
  9. ↑ "Elements Of His Greatness. | All in All, Montana Will Not Soon See His Like Again". The Anaconda Standard. November 18, 1900. p. 20.
  10. ↑ "Boseman Chronicle Sold". The Anaconda Standard. December 31, 1902. p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Local News". The Kalispell Journal. April 13, 1905. p. 8.
  12. 1 2 "Late W.M. Bole to Hall of Fame". Hungry Horse News. Columbia Falls, Montana. August 30, 1963. p. 7.
  13. ↑ "James P. Bole, Veteran Montana Publisher, Dies". Fairview News. April 11, 1940. p. 6.
  14. ↑ "Bozeman Chronicle Sold To Minnesota Men". Winnett Times. Winnett, Montana. February 21, 1946. p. 1.
  15. ↑ "Bozeman Chronicle Sold". The Daily Missoulian. Missoula, Montana. Associated Press. January 31, 1954. p. 13.
  16. ↑ "Scripps League splits papers". The Capitol Journal. Salem, Oregon. December 1, 1975. p. 25.
  17. ↑ Hammer, Barb (October 5, 2017). "Pioneer News Group selling media division to Adams Publishing Group". Archived from the original on February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  18. ↑ Hausen, Jodi; Malloy, Denise; Bozeman Daily Chronicle (2011). We don't make this stuff up: the very best of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle police reports. Bozeman, Mont.: Bozeman Daily Chronicle. OCLC 808649478.