Issue Details: First known date: 1925... 1925 The Ararat Advertiser
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The modern Ararat Advertiser links itself to the earlier versions of the Ararat newspaper, beginning with the Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (1857-1861), followed by the Ararat &​ Pleasant Creek Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera and then the Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the Stawell and Wimmera Districts (1885-1825). The newspaper's website states: the 'Ararat Advertiser has been bringing the news of the day to the people of the Ararat region for 155 years.

'The Ararat Advertiser enjoys the distinction of being one of the oldest continuously operating newspapers in Victoria, second in age only to the Geelong Advertiser masthead.

'Since that first edition, on August 1, 1857, which was a free single sheet newspaper printed from a tent on a muddy goldfield, the Ararat Advertiser has continued to report on Ararat and its people, its successes and disappointments, joyous occasions and tragedies, always with the reader in mind.

'Today [2013] we continue to uphold those ideals and are committed to producing a quality newspaper for the readers of the Ararat region.'

Source: Ararat Advertiser website: http://www.araratadvertiser.com.au/

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A Journalistic Grand Old Man E. J. Banfield , 1892 single work
— Appears in: The Townsville Evening Star , 7 September 1892; (p. 2)
A paragraph item on J. W. Banfield, father of E. J. Banfield: 'One of the Grand Old Men of Australian journalism is ... Mr. J. W. Banfield, the proprietor of the Ararat Advertiser, who founded the paper there in 1857 when the rush was first reported, and who has owned and edited it ever since.... Of Mr. Banfield's three sons, two are journalists; one of these manages the Advertiser, which is a prosperous country paper and the other is Mr. E. J. Banfield the sole-editor of the Townsville Bulletin.'
A Journalistic Grand Old Man E. J. Banfield , 1892 single work
— Appears in: The Townsville Evening Star , 7 September 1892; (p. 2)
A paragraph item on J. W. Banfield, father of E. J. Banfield: 'One of the Grand Old Men of Australian journalism is ... Mr. J. W. Banfield, the proprietor of the Ararat Advertiser, who founded the paper there in 1857 when the rush was first reported, and who has owned and edited it ever since.... Of Mr. Banfield's three sons, two are journalists; one of these manages the Advertiser, which is a prosperous country paper and the other is Mr. E. J. Banfield the sole-editor of the Townsville Bulletin.'
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