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Hoquiam’s News – A love affair with Newspapers

November 21, 2010 by Lori Fox
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The town of Hoquiam owes much of its heritage and history to the unrelenting recording and reporting of the daily occurrences, events, incidents and opinions printed on the pages of numerous gazettes and newspapers that catered to the information needs of the people of that time.

At the zenith of Hoquiam’s love affair with newspapers, the town and the Grays Harbor territory had at least two hundred newspapers and gazettes being published and circulated. These papers started from the late 19th century as Hoquiam was just being recognized as a city until the early 20th century when Hoquiam and the Grays Harbor area was the lumber and timber industry giant of Washington State. The various publications offered different palates of opinion on politics, religious and even ideological discussions to an equally varied public that ate up the editorials and various news and personal commentaries dished out by these papers.

Hoquiam’s main newspapers during those times were Gant’s Sawyer, the Gray’s Harbor Gazette, and of course the Hoquiam American as well as the Gray’s Harbor Washingtonian that was established in 1889 which gained much readership and respect.

During these times, the Washingtonian and its editors with the likes of Congressman Albert Johnson (1869-1957) who was vital in the echoing of support for women’s suffrage rights but opposed the labor unions and was strongly critical of the issues regarding immigrants. This was how crucial the newspapers were not only in Hoquiam’s political maturity but Grays Harbor’s as a whole as well.

Newspapers such as the Washingtonian and many others like it were basically propaganda pieces of various interest groups involved in the Hoquiam area and its major industry during that time which was lumber. The same editor of the Washingtonian, Congressman Albert Johnson also published the Home Defender which blatantly lambasted labor activism and immigrant workers.

Publications such as the Grays Harbor Washingtonian were used to spread information that was detrimental to anti immigrant sentiments and labor activism and labor unions. Such sentiments were pushed hard to the public to affect public opinion and assist in the political or ideological make up of the residents of not only the Grays Harbor area but the state as a whole.

One good thing about the big number or variation of publications available there was a good availability of dissenting opinions and information that was made available to the reading public and thus were not really handicapped in trying to understand or absorbed relevant and accurate information about certain issues, but of course it was up to the reader themselves if they were not going be satisfied with what they read with one newspaper unless what they were reading was what they wanted to believe in the first place.

From 1903 to 1951 the people of Hoquiam and Grays Harbor had a daily dose of the Washingtonian and its brand of self-expression and politically driven editorials. 1951 marked the end of the paper as a daily and was issued on a weekly basis with its final issue being made in 1957. Hoquiam’s newspapers and gazettes brought to its readers the reality of what life was all about in their own little part of America and the different issues confronting their community. The papers also deliberately or inadvertently tried to influence their readers as much as possible to affect local, state and or even national politics.

The late 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th century proved to be the golden age of Hoquiam and the surrounding Grays Harbor, due mainly to the boom of the lumber industry where Hoquiam once led and was an undeniable industry giant. The whole gamut of papers and whatever they contained contributed to how Hoquiam was and now is and that going to be forever part of Hoquiam’s story.

Learn more about Wade Entezar and the city of Hoquiam and it’s newspapers evaluate the past and new developments.

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Golf: Tiger's New 'Bach' | Voxy.co.nz

November 17, 2010 by unknown
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Back in the good old days when New Zealand was a wealthy country, your average Kiwi could afford to buy a ‘Bach’ pronounced Batch. A second, albeit usually smaller home, hopefully by the seaside. And to be shared with family and.

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