![]() ![]() There were three different editorial regimes in the 1920s, starting with Edward Brown, founder of The Signal. If We Can't Please You, DON'T COME AGAIN!" It was the area's printing shop and was pretty proud of its work, according to an ad from September, 1924: "WANTED - Your Printing Business. The Signal office was the place where people registered to vote. They sold all kinds of things at The Signal office, such as Brunswick records, fuse plugs, note pads, school pads, cards and "No Shooting or Hunting" signs. Spaces between stories were often filled with large ads reading, "Boost Newhall." Editorials referred to people who didn't get involved in their community as "flat tires." Mastheads carried slogans like, "The Newspaper With A Backbone," and "For Each Other, Not Against Each Other." The Signal was still in its infancy, getting used to its wings and townspeople. Francis Dam disaster and the Buffalo Tom Vernon train robbery. ![]() Perkins described the 1920s as the decade when nothing much happened outside of the St. A wedding announcement would refer to the bride as "one of our most outstanding girls." The sinking of the Lusitania and the bombing of American Red Cross hospitals are, of course, strong and convincing reasons why we should feel kindly toward them."įar from the thriving region it has become, the valley in 1919 was an agricultural community where everyone knew everyone else by name. 28 issue, "The Germans still cherish hopes that America will stand their friend at the peace table. The Signal in its first year still had a post-war feel, carrying the occasional letter from one of "our boys" still stationed in Europe after serving in World War I. On Friday, March 21, 1919, the headline screamed: "AN OLD LAND MARK BURNS DOWN TUESDAY." The Signal's first big story was that of the destruction of the Swall hotel, a landmark structure and one of the newspaper's regular advertisers. He is kept quite busy with his truck business." "The Sterling Borax Mine, near Lang, is working full time, three sets of miners working eight hours each, consequently the mine never stops working." Bricker, of the Bricker Grocery, was in San Fernando on Monday. Buttler of the Buttler Grocery was in Los Angeles the first of the week buying goods." "Mr. There were no screaming headlines, and one could find unlabeled opinion in almost every news story.Īmong the tidbits in the first issue of The Signal: "There have been several cases of the 'flu' here, but they are all up and around now." "Mr. When The Newhall Signal made its debut, a one-year subscription cost $2. Brown's fledgling publication had a hometown feel from the start, carrying front-page items about parties, trips to the beach and residents' shopping excursions to Los Angeles and other points south.īut even then, when Newhall was a sleepy rural town where talk at the corner store focused on a big crop or the proper way to breed chickens, there was a hint of the growth that would occur in the latter half of the century. 7, 1919, launching an 80-year tradition of vigilance and community journalism.Įdward H. ![]() So wrote The Signal's first editor, in the newspaper's very first issue, on Friday, Feb. "In conclusion, will say that we hope for the loyalty and help that is necessary to make this paper a credit to the town." ![]() "We should continually bear in mind that what tends to the true interest of one, helps others, and we must all work in harmony to promote the ongoing of our home section. "The columns of this paper will be open for the discussion of any subject that will be of interest or benefit to the people of the Newhall and Saugus sections, but we reserve the privilege of eliminating anything that smacks of malice. In order to do our best, we must have the unbiased support and cooperation of the good citizens of these communities, and we are looking forward with perfect faith that this assistance will be extended to us. "With this issue we unfurl the sails of The Newhall Signal upon the sea of journalism, and we hope that our efforts will be of service and benefit to the Newhall and Saugus valley area. ![]()
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