The design and art blog, Curated Magazine, details an exhibition at The Museum of Idaho titled Hot Type, Hard Times. From the museum’s website:

The “Hot Type, Hard Times, 1900-1910″ exhibit opens a window on the city’s frontier past and the decade when civilization finally took root in Idaho Falls. Detailing the struggle waged for control of City Hall by saloonkeepers, bootleggers and gamblers against a reform movement led by two groups bent on civilizing the town.

The first decade of the 20th century was a technology-driven period of sweeping social change in Idaho Falls. In the middle of the decency fight were the town’s three newspapers - the staid Republican Idaho Register, the Idaho Falls Times backing the reform candidate, and a brash pro-labor newcomer, the Daily Post.

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This is the current newspaper stand that will house The Revival Network’s first publication, The Citizen—Cheyenne, during a commencement exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The stand has obviously been untreated, but you can see all the promise it holds.