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3 unusual facts about The Oregonian


Ape Canyon

These allegations were reported on in the July 16, 1924 issue of The Oregonian.

Oregon land fraud scandal

Then when a lumber company bookkeeper exposed the scheme to an The Oregonian reporter, Puter turned on his former boss, testifying against him, and writing a scathing expose, Looters of the Public Domain, about the scheme.

Oregonian

The Oregonian, the daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon, United States


Food cart

A 2001 report in The Oregonian stated Portland was home to 175 carts, with fierce competition for the four cart spaces available since 1987 in the South Park Blocks.

Harry Glickman

He had plans to become a sportswriter, and served as the campus correspondant for The Oregonian, the director of the university’s athletic news bureau, and wrote for the school paper as well as The Register-Guard.

Her Friend the Bandit

From The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon (June 14, 1914): "The Keystone players will offer 'Her Friend, the Bandit', one of those rough and ready fares that make everybody laugh."

Jim Leisy

His photographs have been published by The Oregonian, NPR, Poetry Review, and The Oregon Cultural Trust, and are in private collections and museums.

Linda West Eckhardt

In the early 1980s she moved to Menlo Park, California, where she completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at San Francisco State University, then to Ashland, Oregon, where she began writing on cooking, dining, and travel, and was a columnist for The Oregonian.

Masanjia Labor Camp

On 23 December 2012, The Oregonian reported that an American woman named Julie Keith found a letter, written in alternating Chinese and English, stuffed into a Halloween decoration set she had purchased at a Kmart.

S. Mark Young

His research on popular culture led to a collaboration with Mike Richardson (Dark Horse Entertainment's President) and Steve Duin (columnist for The Oregonian newspaper), on Blast Off!

Scholls, Oregon

According to The Oregonian, the camp had initially been considered as a location for the New Thought church Living Enrichment Center, but instead it became the most heavily fined migrant camp in Oregon.

Statesman Journal

The Oregon Statesman was founded on March 28, 1851, by Asahel Bush, a Democrat, in response to the Whig-controlled Portland-based paper, The Oregonian.

The Oregon Journal

In 1961 the trustees, believing that losses from the strike could bankrupt the paper and deprive the foundation of much of its principal, sold the Journal to The Oregonian's publisher S. I. Newhouse for $8 million.

The Sabertooth Vampire

Russell, who writes regular movie reviews for The Oregonian, a daily newspaper in Portland, created the Sabertooth Vampire in January of 2011 while waiting for a preview screening of the The Mechanic to begin.

The Upsidedown

The album has received national attention, and the band has been noted in several newspapers and magazines as an up-and-coming band to watch, including Magnet, The Boston Globe, and The Oregonian.

Verne Duncan

In a 2000 interview with The Oregonian, Duncan admitted to having voted personally for both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, refusing to give particulars, but indicating that he was an enthusiastic supporter of George H. W. Bush but not his son.


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Will H. Daly

At first greeted on the council as a successful member of the business community, Daly soon found he had enemies among Portland's establishment, most notably his former employer, the Oregonian. Yale University historian, Robert D. Johnston, describes the newspaper's view of him as that of "devil incarnate," by the midpoint of his term on the council, opposing what they termed his "socialistic plans and rosy dreams," an ironic turn of phrase given the city's nickname, the City of Roses.