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chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the separate, more general communications
and media timeline.
1846 M.V. Hall and B.F. Hall buy equipment of failed Aurora
Democrat and launch Aurora Beacon
1856 Aurora Daily Beacon founded
1857 Beacon consolidated with Aurora Guardian
as weekly Aurora Republican-Union
1857 Beacon revived by Oscar Knickerbocker and
George Bangs
1868 launch of San Diego Union
1874 Aurora News founded by Charles Faye (later editor
of Chicago Daily News) and Jacob Siegmund
1876 50% interest in Aurora News purchased by
Willis Hawkins, later editor of Washington Star
1877 Joliet News founded
1878 Claus Spreckels launches irrigated sugar cane plantations
in Hawaii
1890 JD Spreckels buys San Diego Union in opposition
to the Scripps San Diego Sun
1891 Aurora Daily Beacon appears as a daily
1893 Hawaiian monarchy overthrown
1894 SD Barkley launches Redondo Beach Daily Breeze
1895 San Diego Evening Tribune founded
1898 Spreckel's Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar taken
over by Maui planters
1898 US annexes Hawaii
1901 Colonel Ira Copley buys San Diego Evening Tribune
1905 Copley buys Beacon from Charles Smith and
A.J. Hopkins
1907 Spreckels Sugar Refinery Co v Mclain leads
to first federal US income tax on corporate earnings
1911 Aurora News takes over three other dailies: the Post,
the Express, and a German-language paper.
1911 Beacon takes over News
1912 Aurora Daily Beacon News publishes first
edition
1913 Copley buys Joliet Herald
1913 Copley merges Joliet Herald with Joliet
News
1928 Spreckels family sells San Diego Union to
Copley
1928 Copley's newspapers, hitherto operated separately,
organized into Copley Newspapers
1947 Copley dies at age 83, control passes to son James
Strohn Copley
1973 James Copley dies, ownership of Copley Newspapers
Inc. transfers to widow Helen Copley
1983 acquires Santa Monica Outlook
1992 San Diego Union and Evening Tribune
become single title
1998 Copley closes Santa Monica Outlook and San
Pedro News-Pilot
2000 buys Canton Repository from Thomson
2000 sells four dailies (The Herald News, Beacon
News, Courier News and News Sun)
and 14 suburban weeklies in Chicago area to Hollinger
2004 launches free Today's Local News in N San
Diego
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