The Plain Dealer was a weekly Saturday newspaper in Kadina, South Australia, operating from 1894 until 1926 as a smaller competitor to the Kadina and Wallaroo Times. [1]
Yorke's Peninsula Plain Dealer was established in August 1894 by John Albert Southwood and George Spring, [2] who had previously managed the Katoomba Times in New South Wales together. It operated out of an office in Goyder Street. After three years, on 6 March 1897, the name was simplified to The Plain Dealer. [3] The owners also opened a subsidiary mid-week weekly newspaper, the Copper Age in August 1906, with content similar to the Dealer, but it was closed in December 1908. [4]
Southwood and Spring then continued the newspaper out of the Kadina office until 1917, when Southwood, by now a member of parliament, left the partnership. Spring then managed the newspaper alone until 8 January 1926, when the newspaper abruptly closed, likely due to the drop in circulation following the closure of the Wallaroo Mines. [4] [1]
The National Library of Australia has digitised photographic copies of early issues which may be accessed via Trove. [2] [3][ failed verification]