The Observer (Adelaide)
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The Observer, previously The Adelaide Observer, was a Saturday newspaper published in Adelaide, South Australia from July 1843 to February 1931. Virtually every issue of the newspaper (under both titles) has been digitised and is available online through the National Library of Australia's Trove archive service.{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title823 |title=Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905–1931) |access-date=30 January 2015}}
History
= ''The Adelaide Observer'' =
The newspaper was founded on 1 July 1843{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158917178 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |date=1 July 1843 |access-date=9 March 2015 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} by John Stephens, its sole proprietor, as a replacement for George Dehane's Examiner, which ran from 25 November 1841 to 24 June 1843.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263775457 |title=To Our Readers |newspaper=The Examiner |volume=2 |issue=CXII |location=South Australia |date=24 June 1843 |accessdate=17 June 2025 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Both were printed by Dehane at his establishment on Morphett Street{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158917172 |title=Facetiae |newspaper=The Adelaide Observer |volume=I |issue=1 |location=South Australia |date=1 July 1843 |access-date=9 December 2019 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} adjacent Trinity Church.
In 1845 Stephens purchased another local newspaper, the South Australian Register.
= ''The Observer'' =
On 7 January 1905, the newspaper was renamed The Observer, whose masthead later proclaimed "The Observer. News of the world, politics, agriculture, mining, literature, sport and society. Established 1843".{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19117827|title=(Masthead)|work=Observer|location=Adelaide|page=1|via=Trove|access-date=2018-02-16}} In February 1931, the ailing Depression-hit newspaper, along with The Register and other sister publications, was taken over by The Advertiser and shut down.
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External links
- {{trove newspaper|823|Observer|Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931}}
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Category:1843 establishments in Australia
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Adelaide
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