The Plain Dealer (Kadina)

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The Plain Dealer was a weekly Saturday newspaper in Kadina, South Australia, operating from 1894 until 1926 as a smaller competitor to the Kadina and Wallaroo Times . [1]

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History

Yorke's Peninsula Plain Dealer was established in August 1894 by John Albert Southwood and George Spring, [2] who had previously managed the Katoomba Times in New South Wales together. It operated out of an office in Goyder Street. After three years, on 6 March 1897, the name was simplified to The Plain Dealer. [3] The owners also opened a subsidiary mid-week weekly newspaper, the Copper Age in August 1906, with content similar to the Dealer, but it was closed in December 1908. [4]

Southwood and Spring then continued the newspaper out of the Kadina office until 1917, when Southwood, by now a member of parliament, left the partnership. Spring then managed the newspaper alone until 8 January 1926, when the newspaper abruptly closed, likely due to the drop in circulation following the closure of the Wallaroo Mines. [4] [1]

Digitisation

The National Library of Australia has digitised photographic copies of early issues which may be accessed via Trove. [2] [3] [ failed verification ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Plain Dealer". SA Memory. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  2. 1 2 Yorke's Peninsula plain dealer. Kadina, S. Aust. : John Albert Southwood & George Spring. 1894.
  3. 1 2 The Plain dealer. Kadina, S. Aust. : John Albert Southwood and George Spring. 1897.
  4. 1 2 Bailey, Keith (1990). Copper City Chronicle: A History of Kadina. pp. 62–63.
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