Innisfail Advocate

Johnson River Advocate, front page, Friday 4 January 1929

The Innisfail Advocate is a newspaper published in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia.[1]

History

Patrick James Leahy launched the Johnstone River Advocate on 6 December 1906.[2] On Leahy's death in 1927 the newspaper was purchased by William Henry George Groom. [3][4]

Originally published as a weekly newspaper, Groom moved to bi-weekly schedule in January 1929.[4] From November 1940, the newspaper was published daily and in May 1941 was renamed the Evening Advocate. [4]

In 1973 a massive increase in the cost of telex messages used to circulate syndicated news made the newspaper financially unviable and Groom threatened to close the newspaper at the in September 1973. However he was persuaded to continue to publish the newspaper and from October 1973 it was published only three times a week without telexed news content. Groom retired in January 1978, selling the newspaper.[4]

In 2015, the newspaper continues to be published bi-weekly as the Innisfail Advocate by Newscorp.[5]

Digitisation

Historic issues of the newspaper from 1928 to 1954 have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia and are available via Trove.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Innisfail Advocate | News Corp Australia". www.newscorpaustralia.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  2. ↑ "NEWSPAPER LOSSES. INNISFAIL'S HECTIC RECORD. TOWN HAS HAD ELEVEN NEWSPAPER CLOSURES IN FORTY-FIVE YEARS. INNISFAIL, October 15.". Cairns Post. 1935-10-18. p. 16. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  3. ↑ "The Johnstone River Advocate on Auslit". Auslit. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Kirkpatrick, Rod. Groom, William Henry George (1900–1984). Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  5. ↑ "Historical Notes on North Queensland Newspapers". jcu.edu.au.
  6. ↑ "Johnstone River Advocate and Innisfail News (Qld. : 1928 - 1941)". Trove. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Evening Advocate (Innisfail, Qld. : 1941 - 1954)". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
  8. ↑ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". Trove. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Historical newspapers recently added to Trove | John Oxley Library". blogs.slq.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-12-02.

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