The ''Argus Observer'' is the daily

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. The newspaper was established on January 6, 1897, and went through several names and owners before becoming the ''Argus Observer'', which is a reference to Argus Panoptes, a creature from

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that had 100 eyes. The ''Argus Observer'' is owned by

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. The ''Argus'' was founded January 6, 1897 as the ''District Silver Advocate'', originally in

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. It later changed its name to the ''Advocate'', and became an organ of the

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. Don Carlos Boyd purchased it in 1900, changing its allegiance to

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, assuming the name ''Argus'', and moving it to Ontario. In the paper's first decade it was generally a weekly newspaper, with at least two short-lived efforts to switch to daily publication. The ''Eastern Oregon Observer'' was founded in Ontario by Elmo Smith in 1937. The two newspapers merged in 1947, and assumed a daily publication schedule in 1970.

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* 1897 establishments in Oregon Publications established in 1897 Ontario, Oregon Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Wick Communications publications Newspapers published in Oregon {{Oregon-newspaper-stub

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