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The Upland News was a weekly or semiweekly newspaper circulated in
Upland, California
Upland is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States on the border with neighboring Los Angeles County. The municipality is located at an elevation of 1,242 feet (379 m). As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 79,040 ...
, between 1901 and 1974.
Family ownership
The newspaper was established in 1901 by Walter Curtis Westland, who came from Michigan. Its office was then situated in a small house on A Street in Upland, but within a year a new building was constructed for it.
["Upland News Is Sold by Owner," ''Chino Champion,'' January 3, 1928, page 3]
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Westland died of consumption
Consumption may refer to:
*Resource consumption
*Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically
* Consumption (ecology), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms
* Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for curren ...
on December 1, 1902,[ and his wife, Ella L. Westland, took over as editor and publisher. She left the business in December 1910, and her son, W.E. Westland, who had been part owner, purchased her share.][
W.L. Miller was editor in 1910-11.
In 1912, the newspaper office was "considerably damaged" in a fire that swept through Upland's downtown district.
In 1919, the paper increased its publication frequency from weekly to semiweekly. It later went back to weekly.
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Other ownership
In 1928, the company was sold to J.B. Hungerford and his son, John Hungerford, both of Carroll, Iowa
Carroll is a city in, and the county seat of, Carroll County, Iowa, United States, along the Middle Raccoon River. The population was 10,321 in the 2020 census.
History
Carroll was laid out in 1867. It took its name from Carroll County, which ...
. They moved to California to take over management.[ Their first editor and publisher was Richard T. Baldwin of ]Albion, Michigan
Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,616 at the 2010 census and is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The earliest English-s ...
, who later bought the newspaper. Baldwin sold the paper to Vernon Paine and Harry M. Guy in June 1929.
Guy retired in 1939 and sold his interest to Paine, who increased the rate of publication to twice, and then three times, a week.["Paine Launching New Daily by Combining Upland-Ontario Papers,' ''Chino Champion,'' September 12, 1947, page 8]
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Paine acquired the ''Ontario Herald'' from A.Q. Miller about 1946 and announced a year later that the two staffs would be combined as a five-days-per-week daily.[
In 1947, the newspaper was known as the ''Upland News-Herald,'' and that year it published an extra edition when ]Chaffey College
Chaffey College is a public community college in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The college serves students in Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga and Upland. It is the oldest community college in California.
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was selected as the Western team for the Little Rose Bowl football game.
Three years later, publisher W.P. McDonald announced the suspension of the ''News-Herald,'' stating he planned to issue a weekly newspaper.
Mel Hodell bought the ''Upland News'' from Vernon Paine on October 1, 1958, and the ''Montclair Tribune'' on September 1, 1960; he began publishing the ''Cucamonga News'' on December 10, 1961. In 1967, he sold the three newspapers to Bonita Publishing Company. At that time, Jack Harper was editor of the ''Upland News.''
Marcella Case became editor under Bonita in August 1970.
The newspaper ceased publication in 1974.Newspapers.com
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References and notes
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* Reminiscence of Mel Hodell's acquisition of the ''Upland News'' in 1958 and how it was printe
Defunct weekly newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in California