The Oregon Mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
939 issues from 1891 to 1910, published in St. Helens, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
Preceded only by the Columbian, which survived from 1880 to 1886, the St. Helens Mist is the oldest newspaper in existence in Columbia County, where it is currently published as the Chronicle. Appearing in 1881 as the Oregon Mist, the paper began as a result of a vendetta between Mist publisher William Glendye and Enoch Adams of the Columbian. Regardless of Glendye’s original motives, he sold the paper within two years to Emmanuel H. Flagg, who then passed it to Charles Meserve in 1890. Over the next five decades, the Mist was handled by a number of editors, presidents, and managers.
Published in St. Helens, Oregon, the seat of Columbia County and named after Mount St. Helens, the Mist provided thorough coverage of local affairs. The paper reported on the only legal hanging in Columbia County’s history. In 1901, August Schieve was implicated in the murder of Joseph Schulkowski, a Polish immigrant who was found dead on the day after Christmas. Schieve was soon convicted and sentenced to death. The Mist reported afterward, “Columbia county has had its first execution for murder, and its citizens hope it will be the last.”
By 1913, Flagg resumed ownership, changing the paper’s name to St. Helens Mist. Over the next ten years the paper would have at least ten different owners, a few working on the weekly simultaneously as partners. In 1915, Steele L. Moorhead bought the publication and introduced himself as a “stayer” who would “become a permanent fixture.” He sold his…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- St. Helens, Oregon, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress