The ''East Side News'' was a newspaper serving

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

in the U.S. state of

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

, founded in 1906. It was financed by the Scripps-Canfield publishing house of Seattle, but in complete secrecy, due to a promise

E. W. Scripps Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press new ...

had made to Sam Jackson of the ''

Oregon Journal ''The Oregon Journal'' was Portland, Oregon's daily afternoon newspaper from 1902 to 1982. The ''Journal'' was founded in Portland by C. S. "Sam" Jackson, publisher of Pendleton, Oregon's ''East Oregonian'' newspaper, after a group of Portlander ...

'', not to compete in the Portland market. In spite of low circulation in its early days, the ''News'' constructed a building on Clay St. at a cost of $50,000. In 1931 the ''News'' purchased the ''

Portland Telegram Advertisement for the ''Evening Telegram'' in a national newspaper directory in 1894 The Portland ''Telegram'' was a daily newspaper serving Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon from 1877 until it was acquired by, and merged into, the Scripps-ow ...

'' from C. H. Brockhagen, and merged the two papers to form the ''News-Telegram''. According to Oregon newspaper historian George Turnbull, following the merger, the character of the consolidated paper reflected the ''News'' more than the ''Telegram'', though the ''Telegram'' provided "a number of valuable staff members."

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