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The Plain Dealer (Kadina)
''The Plain Dealer'' was a weekly Saturday newspaper in Kadina, South Australia, Kadina, South Australia, operating from 1894 until 1926 as a smaller competitor to the ''Kadina and Wallaroo Times''. History ''Yorke's Peninsula Plain Dealer'' was established in August 1894 by John Albert Southwood and George Spring, who had previously managed the ''Katoomba Times'' in New South Wales together. It operated out of an office in Goyder Street. After three years, on 6 March 1897, the name was simplified to ''The Plain Dealer.'' The owners also opened a subsidiary mid-week weekly newspaper, the ''Copper Age'' in August 1906, with content similar to the ''Dealer'', but it was closed in December 1908. Southwood and Spring then continued the newspaper out of the Kadina office until 1917, when Southwood, by now a member of parliament, left the partnership. Spring then managed the newspaper alone until 8 January 1926, when the newspaper abruptly closed, likely due to the drop in circulation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadina, South Australia
Kadina ( ) is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of the Australian state of South Australia, approximately 144 kilometres north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide. The largest town of the Peninsula, Kadina is one of the three Copper Triangle towns famous for their shared copper mining history. The three towns are known as "Little Cornwall" for the significant number of immigrants from Cornwall who worked at the mines in the late 19th century. Kadina's surrounds form an important agricultural base for the region, and are used for growing cereal crops. Kadina used to be a mining town but now the majority of Kadina's land is used for farming. Description Kadina is about north-east of Moonta and east of the port town of Wallaroo. There are 6 suburbs making up Kadina's township, each being a distinct historic locality or hamlet. These are: Jericho, Jerusalem, Matta Flat, New Town and Wallaroo Mines as well as central Kadina itself. Kadina East was previously a gazetted suburb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |