The Corvallis Times (Corvallis, Or.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
455 issues from 1900 to 1907, published in Corvallis, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Corvallis [Oregon] Times was founded by Robert Johnson in 1888, who ran the paper for five years, selling in 1893 to Benjamin (B.F.) Irvine. Irvine had begun his newspaper career at age 13 as the correspondent of an Albany (Oregon) weekly, before failing eyesight drove him to farming work. When the opportunity came for him to become editor and owner of the Corvallis Times, Irvine took the post in spite of his vision impairment. He would later remark that he did not regard his failing eyesight as a handicap, but that it somehow aided him to expand his energies and sensibilities.
Under Irvine’s ownership, the Times was merged with the Benton Leader in 1893 to serve as “The Official Paper of Benton County.” The eight-page, six-column spread was issued every Wednesday at a subscription cost of $2 per annum. The Times displayed a wide range of content in its early days, touching on news at the local, state, and international levels. The first page included briefs of current events, “important news of all kinds boiled down and arranged for busy people.” Subsequent pages included “Local Lore,” county news “From Our Country Cousins,” special interest stories, and advertisements for local services and business. Advertisements in early issues stated that 6,000 people could be reached through the columns of the Corvallis Times. By 1905, the paper was published on a semiweekly basis every Friday and Tuesday evening, with issues ranging from four to eight pages.
Irvine left his…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Corvallis, 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