The Port Melbourne Standard
{{Short description|Former newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria}}
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The Standard was a weekly newspaper published in Port Melbourne from 1883 to 1914, and as The Port Melbourne Standard from 1914 to 1920.
History
The paper's original offices were in Bay Street, Port Melbourne.
Alf M. Stevens was editor and manager to February 1888, when it was taken over by Philip Salmon, previously of the (Footscray) Advertiser.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164932473 |title=Ourselves |newspaper=The Standard (Port Melbourne) |volume=V |issue=245 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 February 1888 |accessdate=15 September 2020 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
In October 1888 Salmon and Stevens disposed of the paper to Alfred Gagan, publisher of the (Williamstown?) Advertiser.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242527721 |title=Publisher's Sudden Death |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=9205 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=15 April 1905 |accessdate=15 September 2020 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
From [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19820096 Vol.XI No.578] (13 October 1894) its banner was subtitled "With which is incorporated the Port Melbourne Tribune"
Digitization
The National Library of Australia has digitized photographic copies of most issues of The Standard from [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19813735 Vol. 1 No.46] (24 May 1884) to [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19813735# Vol. 28 No.21] (23 May 1914) and The Port Melbourne Standard [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/8502840 Vol. 28 No.22] (30 May 1914) to [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19678593 Vol.34 No.9] (28 February 1920) as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project.
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Category:Defunct newspapers published in Melbourne
Category:Newspapers established in 1893
Category:Publications disestablished in 1920