The Newcastle Argus and District Advertiser

The Newcastle Argus and District Advertiser was an English language newspaper published in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia in the early 20th century. It later became The Toiler and then The Industrialist.

The front page of the Newcastle Argus and District Advertiser on 15 July 1916.

History

The paper began in the early 20th century and was printed and published by K. T. Pogonoski. It consisted chiefly of advertisements for businesses in the Newcastle area in New South Wales. It changed its name to The Toiler in 1920 and was published by Harry Spencer Wood until 1921 when it became The Industrialist : the official organ of Newcastle Industrial Council from 1921 until 1922.[1]

Digitisation

The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program[2] project hosted by the National Library of Australia.[3]

See also

References
  1. "SLNSW Catalogue". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  2. "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  3. "Trove Digitised Newspapers". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

Further reading
  • Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country Conscience: a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995. Canberra: Infinite Harvest Publishing.
  • Isaacs, Victor (2007). Looking good : the changing appearance of Australian newspapers. Middle Park, Queensland: Australian Newspaper History Group.
  • Kirkpatrick, Rod. Press timeline : Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011. Australian Newspaper History Group.
  • Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod; Russell, John (2004). Australian Newspaper History : A Bibliography. Middle Park, Queensland: Australian Newspaper History Group.
  • Newspapers in Australian libraries : a union list (4 ed.). Canberra: National Library of Australia. 1984.
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