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Picture Box: Observing and reporting our own history
The offices of the Observer and the Reporter are seen in 1929. To the left is Donald Boyer Grocery. Businesses going south on South Main Street are Bales Restaurant, Kordalis Kostas Shoe Repair and A.S. Beck Auto Supply. The banner above the street reads: “Do not worry over cost of life and health.”
“Hot Metal” was the printing method used from the beginning until 1973, when “cold type” was introduced. Compositor John King assembles type in this February 1970 photo.
Margaretta Stewart, owner and publisher of The Observer and The Reporter, presses the start button on the new Goss Headliner Press June 21, 1959. From left are genteral manager Jim Lyon, Lucy Stewart Northrop, John L.S. Northrop and William B. Northrop.
A view of the newsroom June 19, 1923, about a year after the building at 122 S. Main Street was completed.
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This collection of photos comes from the Observer-Reporter’s 200th Anniversary edition in 2008. These four special sections each covered 50 years of the publication’s history, later compiled into a book, “200 Years: Our History Through the Pages of the Observer-Reporter.”
Aug. 15, 2008, marked the bicentennial anniversary of The Reporter, one half of the paper’s current namesake. William Sample and William Brown rode into town, with a printing press and supplies in tow. The first edition of The Observer appeared in 1871. In 1903, John L. Stewart, owner of The Observer, purchased The Reporter. The two were merged into one publication in 1967.