History
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University library on the Alva campus contains more than 8,000 Alva newspapers that Blanche and Allen Doughty donated during the summer of 1966 to the history department of Northwestern Oklahoma State University. The newspapers include the Alva Review, Renfrew Record, Alva Record and Alva Daily Record from 1897 to 1941.
The Oklahoma Historical Society did a genealogy of Oklahoma newspapers through a grant from the Library of Congress The following information is based on a newspaper genealogy report requested from the Oklahoma Historical Society by Alva area historian Linda McGill Wagner.
The newspapers that would merge to become the Alva Courier-Review of today included the Alva Daily News, published from March 5, 1908. to December 31, 1908 and the Morning Times, published from April 7, 1912 to November 21, 1914. Both were absorbed by what would become the Daily Review Courier. Published by Logan A. Wilhite and edited by Kent Eubanks, the Morning Times competed with the Alva Daily Pioneer. Eubanks also published and co-edited the Alva Courier with Walter Rossin in 1907 and The Daily Times with Harry Bardshaw in 1908. The Daily Review Courier and Daily Alva Review Courier were used off and on from August 25, 1919 through April 22, 1929. In September 1929, the paper merged with the Alva Review Courier, a daily published from April 23, 1929 through June 4, 1989. On October 1, 1985, the paper used a six-column format, standard advertising unit. The newspaper was also called the Alva Review-Courier & Woods County News from June 7, 1989 through December 13, 1989. On July, 1986, it changed from an evening to morning paper, published Tuesday through Friday with a Sunday edition. The paper's current name was used beginning on December 17, 1989 until today, meaning the Alva Review-Courier has provided news coverage for more than 115 years. It absorbed both the Alva Advocate and, on June 5, 1985, the Newsgram.
The paper's name can be traced back to the 1890s. A weekly publication called the Alva Courier was published in Alva, Oklahoma beginning in 1896 (The First 100 Years of Alva, Oklahoma states it dates back to January 21, 1897). It published from January 13, 1899 to January 23, 1903. An Alva Weekly Courier published from January 30, 1903 to January 24, 1908 and then merged with the Alva Review to become the Alva Review Courier on January 31, 1908. The Alva Review had been published from July 7, 1894 through February 6, 1908. A Alva Review Courier was published from February 13, 1908 to December 31, 1914. Three other papers are worth mentioning. An Alva Weekly News was merged with the Dacoma Herald, to become the Woods County News, which published from June 20, 1968 to May 25, 1989.
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