Heppner Gazette (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
535 issues from 1901 to 1912, published in Heppner, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Gazette first appeared in Heppner, Oregon, in 1883 as the Heppner Weekly Gazette. The publisher, John H. Stine, relocated from Portland, bringing with him a Washington hand-press and other printing equipment. Stine sold the paper after a short tenure, beginning a trend of many editors and publishers cycling through the staff. Future proprietors came from a variety of backgrounds, including former scout and Colonel John Redington, Reverend Henry Rasmus, and a teacher, Otis Patterson.
The paper reflected the rotations in staff, itself going through a few changes in name. In 1890, the title changed to Weekly Heppner Gazette, which ran for two years before assuming the title Heppner Gazette. In 1910, Vawter Crawford, formerly of the Morrow County Record, bought the Gazette and consolidated it with the Heppner Times, forming the Gazette-Times in 1912. A final change came in 1925 when the paper became the Heppner Gazette-Times.
Regardless of the frequent name changes, the paper remained a consistent supporter of the Republican Party. Perhaps not as vitriolic as other periodicals, the Gazette still criticized neighboring editors and newspapers. An 1898 article accused the Dalles Times-Mountaineer of being inconsistent in its denunciation of bossism. According to the Gazette, the Mountaineer “encouraged the democrats and populists to unite with the ‘boss’to defeat the will of the republican party. Now it should take its medicine if the ‘little boss’gives the popocrats a few…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Heppner, 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