Cowra Free Press
{{Short description|Australian English language newspaper (1878–1937)}}
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File:Cowra Free Press, front page, 7 January 1911.pdf
The Cowra Free Press was a semi-weekly English language newspaper published from 1878 to 1937 in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1174146~S2|title=Cowra free press : Canowindra, Woodstock, Mt. McDonald, Goolagong & Upper Lachlan advertiser.|last=|first=|date=|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=9 September 2016}}
History
The Cowra Free Press was established in 1878 by proprietor Joseph Charles Ryall, who remained associated with the paper until he died, aged 91, in 1935. The first issues of the paper were published at the office of The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page12560787 |title=The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser |volume=LXVI |issue=7092 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=8 August 1935 |accessdate=10 September 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} After Ryall's death, the paper was published by family members, with his son, R. J. Ryall as manager and editor. In April 1937 the paper was sold to Earnest Rowland Moulten and Mr R. J. Neve.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17359976 |title=COUNTRY NEWS. NEWSPAPER CHANGES HANDS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=30,977 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 April 1937 |accessdate=10 September 2016 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{Cite web|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1163601~S1|title=The Lachan Leader|last=|first=|date=|website=Catalogue|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|access-date=11 September 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117763531 |title=MERGER OF TWO COWRA NEWSPAPERS. |newspaper=The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser |volume=LXVIV |issue=7863 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 October 1943 |accessdate=10 September 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} On 1 June 1937 the paper was renamed the Lachlan Leader "with which is incorporated the Cowra Free Press".{{Cite book|title=Country Conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995|last=Kirkpatrick|first=Rod|publisher=Infinite Harvest|year=2000|isbn=0646402706|location=Canberra City, A.C.T.|pages=194}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167100845 |title=The Lachlan Leader. |newspaper=The Wingham Chronicle And Manning River Observer |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 June 1937 |accessdate=11 September 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} The Lachlan Leader was absorbed by the Cowra Guardian in October 1943.
Digitisation
The Cowra Free Press has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.{{cite web|title=About Digitised Newspapers and more|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=8 June 2017}}{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=11 September 2016|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|url-status=dead}}
See also
References
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External links
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