{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2014}} {{Italic title}} thumb|''Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate'', 15 July 1874 '''''The Singleton Argus''''', also published as ''The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate'', is a semiweekly English language newspaper published in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia since 1874. == History == ''The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate'' began as a weekly newspaper and was first published on 15 July 1874 by John Willis.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pogonoski|first=Reg. C.|title=The History of Journalism and Printing in the North of New South Wales|journal=Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society|year=1938|volume=24|issue=5–6|page=425}}</ref> In September 1874 it was purchased by Thomas Boyce and Henry Pinchin.<ref>{{cite web|last=Teale|first=Ruth|title=Boyce, Charles (1835–1917)|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boyce-charles-3035|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography|access-date=13 March 2013}}</ref> The title was shortened to ''The Singleton Argus'' on 14 July 1880.<ref>{{cite web|title=Singleton Argus|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1157917~S2|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|accessdate=13 March 2013}}</ref>
== Digitisation == The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=13 March 2013}}</ref>
== See also == * List of newspapers in Australia
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == * [https://www.singletonargus.com.au/ The Singleton Argus] *{{trove newspaper|282|The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate|NSW : 1874 – 1880}} * {{trove newspaper|281|Singleton Argus|NSW : 1880 – 1954}} * [http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/NewspaperChronology.html Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021091603/http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/birth-of-the-newspaper The birth of the newspaper in Australia] * [http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:9521 Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004). Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography] * [http://www.nla.gov.au/sites/default/files/sydnews.pdf Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod, Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Singleton Argus, The}} Category:Newspapers published in New South Wales Category:Singleton, New South Wales Category:Newspapers on Trove