The Northern Champion

Front cover of The Northern Champion on 22 February 1913.

The Northern Champion was a bi-weekly newspaper published in Taree, New South Wales, Australia from 1912 until 1961.

History

The Northern Champion was first published on 2 February 1912 by David A. Cowan.[1] Mary Lucy Cowan (1872-1950) became proprietor and manager of the Northern Champion after the death of her brother David Cowan in 1922.[2] In 1961 the Northern Champion was absorbed into the Manning River Times.[3]

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP) project of the National Library of Australia.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Northern Champion 1 (1): 1. 2 February 1912 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page11722129. Retrieved 26 June 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press 1841-1995. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing. p. 239.
  3. ↑ "Manning River Times". SLNSW Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove Digitised newspapers and more. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

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