SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Northwestern University reports more than 3,200 newspapers have vanished since 2005. One that faded away decades ago is from the Ozarks. It gained a huge following and an infamous reputation.

We talked to Author Sean Rost with the State Historical Society of Missouri about The Menace in Aurora, Missouri, and about the anti-Klan movement in Missouri. He told us the paper became one of the largest anti-Catholic newspapers in the country in the 1910s and into the 1920s. It claimed to have millions of subscribers. The Knights of Columbus even took up the effort to challenge The Menace. We’re told the paper printed false articles about Catholics, even saying Catholics wanted a holy war in America against Protestants.

“It was so well read and so heavily subscri

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