The Oroville Weekly Gazette (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??

• 1909–1923
• Newspaper

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682 issues from 1909 to 1923, published in Oroville, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.

Oroville began as a mining camp near the Canadian border in Okanogan County, Washington. Initially known as “Oro,” the town’s name was lengthened to “Oroville” by the local Post Office when it was established in 1893 in order to avoid confusion with the Snohomish County city of Oso.

Oroville’s first newspaper, the Madre d’Oro, was published out of a tent on August 27, 1892, by James M. “Jim” Hagerty (1864-1905), a new arrival from the Midwest. Hagerty enjoyed boosting Oroville at the expense of the neighboring town of Loomis, which was frequently the target of his jabs. Hagerty’s very brief career as a newspaperman came to a halt when, during a shopping visit to Loomis, the citizens decided to decorate the journalist with tar and feathers. The story goes that as a rail was produced to run him out of town a respected matron of the town stopped the proceedings with her commanding voice, bringing the ritual to a sudden halt. It would be over a dozen years before another newspaper would appear in Oroville.

The Oroville Weekly Gazette was founded by Frederick Jay Fine (1874-1928) in June 1905. A Washington State native, Fine had trained as an apprentice with the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Fine gained a business partner in March 1909 in the person of Frank Middlemore Dallam (1849-1928), a veteran newspaperman and political figure. Dallam’s long resumé included founding the Spokane Falls Review and serving as a member of the Washington Constitutional Convention in 1889. Dallam…

Genres

News

Published in

Oroville, Washington, 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

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