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'The two page first issue of The Northern Star was brought out on May 13, 1876, on the tiny Albion hand press that today [2013] holds pride of place in the foyer of the Goonellabah Media Centre. The primitive printing press is a small monument to the advancement of The Northern Star.
'In 1955 building started on the media centre in Goonellabah, and in 1957 the move was made from the Molesworth St office.
'In 1981 The Northern Star commissioned a 7unit Gross Urbanite Web Offset press capable of printing 40,000 fifty six page copies - or 2.24 million pages an hour.
'In 2004 the press was upgraded to twelve units with six Enkel auto reel stands, increasing the capability to 3.2 million pages an hour. That's 53,333 pages a minute! Colour capacity also increased from 16 to 48 pages of processed colour in one pass.'
Source: The Northern Star website, http://www.northernstar.com.au/aboutus/
Sighted: 13/08/2013
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During 1888 the newspaper regularly published selected anecdotal pars from overseas sources. Pars were sometimes published with a source attribution. The editor's actual source for the pars is not always clear. The attributed international sources for pars in The Northern Star and Richmond and Tweed Rivers Advocate include:
Harper's Bazaar
Toronto Telegraph
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Issues of the The Northern Star and Richmond Tweed Rivers Advocate from 4 January to 12 May 1888 were indexed as part of the Colonial Newspapers and Magazines Project.
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Has serialised
- Stranger than Fiction, single work novel
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The Death Doctor,
single work
novel
science fiction
A doctor's experiments lead to the partial conquering of death.
