The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-11
FIFTY YEARS OLD

FIFTY YEARS OLD
The Bismarck Tribune today is celebrating it's ffcth
anniversary. The oldest newspaper North Dakota
this day search back along the paths of memory
of the printed to the vssitude
of days the forude and the foresight of those who
bulded the institution from little plant in pioneer town
shack a modern institution and to pay to them the
tribute they richly deserve from the institution and from
the community.
It's history typical of that of North Dakota of the
field it's survival amid trials reflection of the per-
of those who bued the great Sunshine State
and its growth is consonant with the development of
nlonweah.
The Bismarck Tribune came with the railroad" the first
great outpost of advancing march of permanent settle
The establishment of the newspaper marked the
ond sc the determination Of the community to live and
traders explored the country army and intrepid adj
venturers made it safe from hostile the railroad
part of nation and the newspaper stood before the
OF the rest of the nation as proof that the Great Plains a
Only those who the spirit of the pioneers of the
west will not marvel at the willingness of COL Clement
Lnsbcry to put his fortune into printing
and type and send to Bismarck the first freight train
fifty Only those who realize the conditions OF the
day will fully appreciate the pride he must have felt whe
the first Bismarck Tribune off the little July H.
1873 requires vivid imagination to mirror the
value of his enterprise in the DEVELOPMENT of the community
in providing medium for those hungering for from
the east recording the activities of the pioneers and bind
ing them closer through knowledge of each other and in
have despared OF ultimate success under the con-
ditons of the time. -
But the march of The Tribune as that of the pioneers
the city. the always forward Marshall H. Jewell
and Stanley Huney succeeded COL Lounsberry. Brilliant
though he was, Mr. ntey surrendered to the elements
against him and returned to the east but Mr. Jewells IN
donabe will and faith in the project srrred him onward
Alone he took the second great step in the history of the
for he changed into daily Stead
iy The Tribune has grown. The equipment OF the
early days has been replaced by modern machinery costing
hundred times that with which the first issues given
to the public it's medium of receiving and distributing
has that events of the moment in Europe may be
given to readers in Bismarck at the time they
in London newspapers; the small buildings which housed
the plant in days have been succeeded by modern
reproof buildng the staff has from few to many
The Tribune met all the obstacles which beset the po
the passed through three fires, but
news the terrible slaughter of the Battle of the Little
Bio Horn where General George A. Custer died. 1t has
rolled it's staff from time to time who have achieved
briance in other fields, them James W. Foley noted
the Brooklyn Eagle and nationally famous Kirk La Shele
who became noted playwright; }. NJ QUINN writer and
kumors; Col. VIM Pummer, who became widely known as
an A. IT, Packard who established the Bad Lands
Cowboy and helped to bring order into the frontier town
of Medora.
The fte anniversary of the founding of The Tribune
is for epochal event The anniversary for the COM
lny important milestone in it's progress in the growth
Of the past shaft of light into the future and be-
speaks still greater progress ahead. -
The Tribune today presenting an anniversary edition
TO pay it's tribute to those who it life and strength and
Tribune aided by the merchants of the city, who have
oyav supported institution from it's inception and who
in building in the past and do in the present help to
bui'd the community.
During ali of it's fifty it's days of adversely
well as - the institution of The Tribune has
never waveed in it's belief that Bismarck and the northern
Missouri Valley in which the city is situated would make
progress ever forward and this anniversary reaflrms
It's confident expectation that another like period will witness
an even greater growth than the last fifty years
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