Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 A Journalistic Grand Old Man
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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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