Thanks to a partnership with Independence Public Library, more Historic Oregon Newspapers from Independence, Oregon, are now online! Specifically, additional issues of the Independence Enterprise have been added, as well as the complete run of the Independence Monitor.

Newly added issues of the Independence Enterprise range in publication date from July 21, 1911, to December 15, 1922. The newspaper began life as the West Side Enterprise, which was in existence from January 14, 1904, to October 8, 1908, and was published on a weekly basis. Then veteran newspaper editor Charles E. Hicks took over as publisher and proprietor of the paper. Under Hicks’s leadership, the newspaper was given a new name: the Independence Enterprise. The first issue was first printed on October 15, 1908, and, like the West Side Enterprise before it, the Independence Enterprise was published on a weekly basis.

In the early years of the Independence Enterprise, an annual subscription to the weekly paper was $1.50; a six-month subscription cost 75 cents. For more than six decades, the newspaper would keep the people of Independence, Polk, Oregon, abreast of current events. Local, state, and national news was covered in its pages. A sampling of headlines from the inaugural issue, published October, 15, 1908, includes “Prize Winners at School Fair” (page 1), “Portland Markets” (page 8), and “White House Stable Fire” (page 6). A political cartoon from this same issue shows then president Theodore Roosevelt wielding his “Big Stick,” and advertisements tout businesses and products ranging from the Little Palace Hotel to California Medicated Soap. The last issue of the Independence Enterprise would be published on June 26, 1969.

Besides more issues of the Independence Enterprise, the Historic Oregon Newspapers website now features the entire run of the Independence Monitor. The Independence Monitor was in publication for only six years, from 1912 to 1918. The first issue appeared on newsstands and doorsteps on August 1, 1912; the last issue was printed on July 6, 1918. The Independence Monitor was a weekly newspaper. At the beginning of its run, in 1912, the paper came out every Thursday. Beginning in January 1913, however, the newspaper was released every Friday. For much of its six-year existence, the Independence Monitor would be published on Fridays except toward the very end of its run. In its final weeks, the paper was printed on Saturdays.

In 1912, readers of the Independence Monitor could buy a one-year subscription to the weekly publication for $1.50. The $1.50 subscription rate remained constant throughout the life of the newspaper, and subscription payments were “strictly in advance.” G.A. Hurley was publisher and proprietor of the Independence Monitor during the entirety of the newspaper’s six-year run. The newspaper, under Hurley’s direction, published “Local News Items of Interest” and “Oregon News Notes of General Interest,” as well as national and international news stories. Headlines from the January 31, 1913, issue of the Independence Monitor include “Revival Meetings Closed Sunday” (page 1), “When Woodrow Wilson and W.J. Bryan Talked It Over” (page 2), and “Two Prominent Turks in the Balkan Peace Conference” (page 4). The Independence Monitor kept the citizens of Independence, Oregon, well informed of current events.

As with all historic newspapers available on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website, each and every issue of the Independence Enterprise and the Independence Monitor can be browsed and searched by keyword, thanks to optical character recognition (OCR) technology. In addition, these historic Independence, Oregon, newspapers can be downloaded as a PDF or JPEG file and saved for future reference or research purposes at absolutely no cost to visitors to Historic Oregon Newspapers. So, check out the newly added issues of the Independence Enterprise and the entire run of the Independence Monitor at Historic Oregon Newspapers today!

Thanks to a partnership with the Morrow County Museum in Heppner, Oregon, even more issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times have been added to Historic Oregon Newspapers!

The newspaper that would inform the people of Heppner in Morrow County, Oregon, for more than a century was first published as the Heppner-Weekly Gazette in 1883. It wasn’t until 1925, when the paper underwent a final name change, that the Heppner Gazette-Times as it is known today came to be. Familiarly called the Gazette-Times, the newspaper is published weekly.

Issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times that have been newly added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website range in publication date from January 6, 1977, through June 28, 1984. That’s nearly 5,000 pages of historic Oregon newspaper content now available online! As is the case with all content on Historic Oregon Newspapers, these additional issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times can be browsed and searched by keyword. Newspaper content can also be downloaded and saved for later as PDF or JPEG files, at absolutely no cost to you!

Take a look at these newly added issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website today! Plenty of great historic newspaper content awaits you online!

Even more historic newspapers from Independence, Oregon, are now on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website, thanks to a partnership with the Independence Public Library, and funding from the Polk County Cultural Coalition and Friends of the Independence Public Library.

The historic Independence, Oregon, newspapers the West Side and the West Side Enterprise, as well as additional issues of Independence Enterprise, have been added to Historic Oregon Newspapers. So much excellent historic newspaper content!

The West Side was established in the 1880s and ceased publication at the turn of the century. Published on a weekly basis, the West Side kept the citizens of Independence, Polk County, Oregon, abreast of local, national, and international news. Front-page headlines for its March 15, 1901, issue (the masthead for which can be seen above) include “Oregon State News” (“A new opera house is to be built at Eugene”; “The Baker City post office will have a stamp-cancelling machine”), “News of the Week” (“Carnegie denies that he is going to Europe with J.P. Morgan”), and “Almost a Clash” (“Friction Between the British and Russians at Tien Tsin”).

Published twice a week for much of its existence, the West Side Enterprise served the people of Independence, Polk County, Oregon, for just four years, from 1904 to 1908. The first issue of the West Side Enterprise was printed on January 14, 1904; its last, on October 8, 1908. Above is the masthead from the August 3, 1906, issue of the West Side Enterprise. Front-page headlines for this issue include “Gives Franchise” (“County Court Acts on Application of Falls City and Dallas Railroad”), “He Goes to Jail” (“George Hoaglin Makes Gun Play and Gets a Pummeling as a Result”), and “California is Booming” (“In the state, conditions indicate one of the most prosperous years in the history of California”). Like the West Side, the West Side Enterprise reported on news happening locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Independence Enterprise was published by the Enterprise Pub. Co., beginning in the 1890s.  It would continue to be published on a weekly basis through the 1900s. Using a quote by Thomas Jefferson as an early motto (“Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty”), the Independence Enterprise was vigilant in keeping up on a variety of news events, from happenings in the arts and politics, to goings-on in commerce, education, and local society. Front-page news for the Independence Enterprise in its October 2, 1902, issue (seen below) was the success of Susie Fennel Pipes, a violinist who was born in Independence but who would go on to gain greater renown for her musical talents in Portland, Oregon. “Former Independence Girl Winning Name for Herself” says the headline just above a photo of Pipes holding her violin and bow. Front-page coverage of Pipes further informed readers of her upcoming concerts.

In its later years, the Independence Enterprise would merge with the West Side newspaper to become the Independence Enterprise and West Side. The newspaper’s name change can be seen on the front page of the October 2, 1902, issue below.

As with all newspapers on Historic Oregon Newspapers, these newly added issues of the West Side and the West Side Enterprise, as well as the additional issues of the Independence Enterprise, can be read, searched by keyword, downloaded, and saved as a PDF or JPEG for future perusal – at no cost to users! Enjoy this new content on Historic Oregon Newspapers!

Thanks to a partnership with the Monmouth Public Library, and funding from the Polk County Cultural Coalition and Monmouth Friends of the Library, even more issues of the Monmouth Herald have been added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website!

In print from 1908 through 1969, the Monmouth Herald kept the people of Monmouth, Oregon, informed, reporting on local, national, and international news events. The newspaper came out on a weekly basis until its last issue, published on June 26, 1969. Its publisher was Acorn Press.

The Monmouth Herald can still be read, researched, and enjoyed, with issues available for free online at the Historic Oregon Newspapers website. Additional issues of the Monmouth Herald now up on the Historic Oregon Newspapers site range in date from September 4, 1908, through March 24, 1927. As with all newspapers on Historic Oregon Newspapers, each issue of the Monmouth Herald can be searched by keyword because of optical character recognition (OCR) technology. In addition, each issue of the newspaper can be downloaded and saved as a PDF or JPEG file, at absolutely no cost to visitors to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website.

Check out these additional issues of Monmouth Herald on Historic Oregon Newspapers today!

A partnership with the Morrow County Museum in Heppner, Oregon, means more historic newspapers are now up on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website!

Fresh new content on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website includes the Boardman Mirror, which informed the citizens of Boardman, Morrow County, Oregon, on a weekly basis from 1921 to 1925. Historic Oregon Newspapers now has the complete run of the Boardman Mirror, from the first issue, published on February 11, 1921, to the last, printed on September 4, 1925.

In addition to the Boardman Mirror, four newspapers that served the people of Ione, Oregon, are now available on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website. They are the Ione Bulletin (June 12, 1913 – September 11, 1913), the Ione Independent (January 4, 1924 – June 19, 1931), the Ione Journal (April 28, 1915 – April 12, 1916), and the Ione Proclaimer (Jume 25, 1909 – December 10, 1909). So much great historic newspaper content to read, research, and enjoy!

Historic Oregon Newspapers now also has the Lexington Wheatfield (September 28, 1905 – September 19, 1907) and the Lexington Weekly Budget (November 14, 1889 – September 25, 1890). Both of these Historic Oregon Newspapers were printed for and read by the residents of Lexington, Morrow County, Oregon. Additionally, both newspapers were published on a weekly basis. Alternate titles of these historic newspapers are the Wheatfield and the Weekly Budget, respectively. All content of these historic Oregon papers can now be viewed – at no cost to you!

Thanks to a partnership with Morrow County Museum in Heppner, Oregon, more great issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times are now available on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website.

Now, visitors to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website can access issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times from July 5, 1951, through December 30, 1976. This new content is a huge boost to the robust collection of Heppner Gazette-Times issues already online at Historic Oregon Newspapers. As with all issues on the Historic Oregon Newspapers website, these additional issues of the Heppner Gazette-Times can be read, searched by keyword, downloaded, and saved as a PDF or JPEG file for future perusal – all at no cost to users!

The Heppner-Gazette Times has been in print since 1925. For more than 80 years, the Heppner, Oregon, newspaper has chronicled news at the local level in Morrow County and at the state and national levels. For an introduction to Heppner, Oregon, and its history, see the blog post “Morrow County Now Represented in Historic Oregon Newspapers Online!”

In addition to the partnership with the Morrow County Museum, this excellent new content was also made possible by copyright permission given by the Heppner Gazette-Times.

More than 9,000 pages of historic newspaper content have been added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website! Much of this content is from papers that served Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, including Corvallis Gazette, Corvallis Times, Union Gazette, and Oregon Union.

Rich in fascinating historic content, the new additions to Historic Oregon Newspapers are:

Athena, Umatilla County, OR. The Athena Press (June 9, 1893-Jan. 8, 1909)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. The Benton Democrat (Dec. 28, 1872-June 21, 1873)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. The Corvallis Gazette (April 22, 1865-Dec. 30, 1898)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. Corvallis Gazette (April 27, 1900-Dec. 29, 1908)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. The Corvallis Times (June 2, 1900-Dec. 30, 1903)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. The Oregon Union (Feb. 28, 1863)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. Oregon Union (Sept. 3, 1897-Feb. 10, 1899)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. The Union Gazette (Feb. 17, 1899-April 20, 1900)

In recent weeks, a slew of great new content has been added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website, from a Finnish-language newspaper whose target readership was American female communists (Toveritar) to a newspaper that proudly proclaimed in its masthead: “Independent in all things; Neutral in nothing” (Douglas Independent).

As fans of Historic Oregon Newspapers, you surely don’t want to miss these new additions:

Salem, OR. Capitol Journal (Oct. 17, 1922-Dec. 30 1922)

Roseburg, OR. Douglas Independent (June 15, 1878-Dec. 25, 1885)

St. Helens, Columbia County, OR. Oregon Mist (Aug. 7, 1891-July 8, 1910)

Albany, OR. State Rights Democrat (Jan. 21, 1881-April 20, 1900)

Monmouth, Polk County, OR. Polk County Observer (April 10, 1903-Feb. 25, 1908)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. Corvallis Gazette (Jan. 1, 1901-Dec. 29, 1905)

Corvallis, OR. Corvallis Times (Jan. 6, 1904-Aug. 16, 1907)

Corvallis, OR. Corvallis Daily Gazette (May 3, 1909-June 30, 1909)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. Gazette-Times (July 2, 1909)

Corvallis, Benton County, OR. Daily Gazette-Times (Aug. 2, 1909-Dec. 31, 1909)

Astoria, OR. Toveritar (Nov. 9, 1915-Dec. 16, 1922)

Thanks to a partnership with the Crook County Historical Society/Bowman Museum in Prineville, Oregon, issues of the Crook County Journal are now online at Historic Oregon Newspapers!

The Crook County Journal reliably kept residents of Prineville, Oregon, informed for more than two decades, beginning in the 1890s. Throughout its run, the newspaper was published weekly, arriving hot off the press every Thursday. In 1901, readers could get the Crook County Journal for $1.50 for a one-year subscription, 75 cents for a six-month subscription, and 50 cents for a three-month subscription. At the end of the Crook County Journal‘s run, in 1921, subscriptions to the newspaper were only offered on an annual basis, for $2 a year.

For the first decade of the 20th century, readers of the Crook County Journal were treated to four pages of content. In later decades, the newspaper averaged eight pages. Topics covered included local and state news, especially politics and natural disasters, school happenings and construction projects. Advertisements, which increasingly took up more page space with each passing year of the newspaper’s existence, touted a range of products and services, from typewriters to farming equipment to menswear to banking services.

Content from the Crook County Journal can be browsed online at the Historic Oregon Newspapers website. Each issue of the newspaper can be browsed by issue date via the website’s calendar view. In addition, specific content can be found through keyword search on the website’s search page. PDFs of newspaper pages can be downloaded. All issues of the Crook County Journal that are now online are available for browsing, searches, and downloads – all for FREE at Historic Oregon Newspapers!

Historic Oregon Newspapers now has weekly coverage of the Crook County Journal from January 2, 1901, through July 7, 1921. Take a look at this and other historic newspaper content from Oregon at Historic Oregon Newspapers!