A hundred years ago wood blocks were carved and inked to put images in the paper. Above is an expamle of one of these blocks.
The Bear Paw Mountaineer
Volume 1
Big Sandy, Montana, March 2, 1911
Main headlines read:
BILL FOR COMMUTATION NORTH OF THE MARIAS PASSED CONGRESS THIS WEEK.
Editor's Note. This is an article written in the first Mountaineer paper. It is printed here in it's entirety
A GROWING TOWN AND IT'S FUTURE PROSPECTS
MUCH DEPENDS ON THE WAY OUR CITIZENS DEVELOP OPPORTUNITY
HAS GREAT TRADE TERRITORY
LAND FOR MILES AROUND US WHEN SETTLED
IS BOUND TO MAKE BIG SANDY
A LARGE TRADE CENTER
Big Sandy has a future before it that the business men of the city must develop. Situated as it is in the center of a vast...
