St. Johns Review (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
844 issues from 1904 to 1922, published in Portland, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
The St. Johns Review is Portland’s oldest neighborhood newspaper dating back to 1904, when St. Johns was still a separate municipality. Located on the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, just north of the original Portland city site, “St. Johns on the Willamette” was platted in 1852 by an eccentric hermit named James John. It was the founder’s reclusive but kindly reputation, rather than any formal religious affiliation, that was the source of the “Saint” nickname he passed on to the town.
St. Johns grew slowly but steadily over its first several decades. By the turn of the 20th century, there was a thriving downtown business district with shops and restaurants. Electric trolley service arrived in 1903, the same year that the town was officially incorporated. By 1904, when the Portland Woolen Mills relocated to St. Johns, the momentum of civic growth had reached the point where a local newspaper was necessary, especially for the printing of legal notices. The inaugural issue of the St. Johns Review, edited by John C. Crome, came out on November 11, 1904: its front page touted “Remarkable Growth” and proclaimed editorial fealty to “the Interests of the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest.” A competitor, the Peninsula Herald, soon appeared on the scene, but there were only enough local advertisers to support one paper, so the Herald shortly ceded the field. But Crome’s tenure as newspaperman would also prove to be short…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Portland, 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