The Lebanon Express (Lebanon, Linn 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.
453 issues from 1887 to 1897, published in Lebanon, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
Named after the train from the old Oregon railway, the Lebanon Express served the Mid-Willamette Valley region in Lebanon, Oregon. Legendary newspaperman Jacob H. Stine established the newspaper, publishing the first issue on March 5, 1887. Stine had started many newspapers in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, including Grant’s Pass Courier, Rogue River Courier, Heppner Weekly Gazette, Weiser City Leader, and Monmouth Democrat. After a year, Stine left the Lebanon Express. In 1891, a friend of Stine named N.C. Cook murdered Stine in a shooting incident in Independence, Oregon.
The Lebanon Express competed with the Lebanon Advance. The Advance was founded in 1889 by Jack Adams and George L. Alexander, son of pioneering newspaperman John B. Alexander, who had founded the first newspaper in Eugene, Oregon: the Eugene City News. The Express and the Advance were combined in 1897 under Hugh Yandel Kirkpatrick. The newspaper’s new name was the Lebanon Express-Advance. In 1912, the paper’s name was changed again, to Lebanon Express. Originally, the Lebanon Express was a weekly paper. As the Lebanon Express-Advance,it was a semiweekly newspaper.
The Lebanon Express had regular sections for local news (“Local and General” and “Local Jottings”), as well as sections dedicated to poetry and fiction. Other sections in the Lebanon Express were “Geography and Finance,” “Science and Industry,” “Produce Market” (which included up-to-date prices on common goods), and “Summons” (which announced…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lebanon, 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