East Oregonian : E.O (Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Or.; Pendleton, or) 1888-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5,734 issues from 1904 to 1922, published in Pendleton, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
Established in October of 1875, the weekly Pendleton East Oregonian was distinct in offering subscribers a bonded guarantee that they would not lose their money. Paying upfront for a subscription was risky, as money was scarce and many papers went out of business a few months after publishing the first issue. The East Oregonian was a success, attracting local advertisers and satisfying everyone on the subscription rolls. Tensions began to surface, however, as it became evident that the paper would be a Democratic mouthpiece, a feature that alienated Republican advertisers. After a group of Democrats purchased the periodical in 1877, local businessman Lot Livermore withdrew his financial support and backed a Republican paper, the Pendleton Independent.
James H. Turner was the principal investor in the new East Oregonian Publishing Company and assumed the mantle of editor. In 1880, Lewis Berkeley Cox joined as editor, publisher and half-owner. Cox soon moved on to a career in law, but he made a number of improvements to the periodical, such as doing away with the ready-print content that made up half the paper. The next editor-publisher, Charles Christie, pledged that he would not stomach the “personal journalism” that was practiced on Oregon editorial pages in those days. A few weeks later, he announced his retirement due to “ill-health.”
Cox returned and ran the paper until January 1882, when the East Oregonian was acquired by an emigrant from Virginia, Charles Samuel…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pendleton, 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