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The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [4] This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman ...
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
That same year In August they bought the Eastern Oregon Observer, [6] a paper founded in Ontario by Elmo Smith in 1936. [4] Smith sold the Observer to Jessica Longston and Robert Pollock in December 1946 and eight months later they sold it again to Mainwaring and Lynch. It was then the Argus and Observer were merged to form the Argus Observer. [6]
The People's Observer: LCCN sn00062131, 2009257307; OCLC 43533948, 466893829; Issues from 1938–1939, 1944, and 1945 available online. Published by William H. McClendon from 1938 to 1939, and revived by him as The People's Observer in 1943. [36] Portland: The Portland Observer / New Portland Observer [37] 1970 [37] current: Weekly [37] LCCN ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Observer, established in 1896, [2] is a newspaper that serves Union and Wallowa counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. Its headquarters are in La Grande, the seat of Union County. The Observer circulates Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. [2] EO Media Group based in Salem, Oregon, publishes the newspaper. [2]
The Argus ' former offices, in use from 1955 to 2014. In October 1999, the Argus was sold by the McKinney family to Advance Publications, Inc. after the family had held ownership interests in the paper since 1904 and had been sole owners since 1909. [8] Advance also owns the region's daily newspaper, The Oregonian.
Ontario is the largest city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.It lies along the Snake River at the Idaho border. The population was 11,645 at the 2020 census. The city is the largest community in the region of far eastern Oregon, also known as the Western Treasure Valley.