The Dallas Itemizer. (Dallas, OR.) February 26, 1876. Page 1.
Oregon Historic Newspapers has recently been able to add new content from Dallas, OR! This project was made possible, in part, by funding from the Polk County Cultural Coalition. The added issues come from The Dallas Itemizer and the The Polk County Itemizer and cover a period of the paper’s publications from 1876 to 1903.
Polk County Itemizer. (Dallas, OR.) October 10, 1902. Page 1. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn94049693/1902-10-10/ed-1/seq-1/
The Dallas Itemizer was a predecessor to The Polk County Itemizer, changing its name to the latter in 1879 by publisher George E. Good. Our newly added time-span was a formative period for The Itemizer, and the paper underwent an incredible amount of changes in ownership. From 1876 to 1903, a total of 10 different individuals each had a turn as publisher!
One publisher, W. A. Wash, who took over the paper in June 1888 was considered to be quite the ‘interesting’ editor. Wash didn’t utilize much space for set editorials and instead dispensed his own moralistic opinions throughout the paper at will. These examples are taken from just one issue on December 15, 1893.
Polk County Itemizer. (Dallas, OR.) December 15, 1893, page 3. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn94049693/1893-12-15/ed-1/seq-3/Polk County Itemizer. (Dallas, OR.) December 15, 1893, page 3. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn94049693/1893-12-15/ed-1/seq-3/Polk County Itemizer. (Dallas, OR.) December 15, 1893, page 3. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn94049693/1893-12-15/ed-1/seq-3/Polk County Itemizer. (Dallas, OR.) December 15, 1893, page 3. https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn94049693/1893-12-15/ed-1/seq-3/
To see more of the The Dallas Itemizer or The Polk County Itemizer, feel free to browse the span of issues we have digitized on our website. These titles, as with all our historic newspapers, can be browsed and searched by keyword thanks to optical character recognition (OCR). In addition, content can be downloaded as a PDF or JPEG file and saved for future reference or research purposes. All of these services are free and open to the public, so don’t wait and take a look at Oregon’s historic newspapers today!
