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166 The publishers of the Itemizer then were Casey & Hammond. A little bit later Mr. Hammond dropped out of the firm, and the N. N. handed him this little "momentum" in the issue of July 23, 1875:

"Brother Casey of the Dallas Itemizer has recently taken to himself a wife, got rid of his obscene editorial associate, . . . once more a respectable journal."

For financial reasons she disposed of the New Northwest in January 1887, selling to O. P. Mason, who suspended the paper two years later and bought the Pacific Farmer, which was the old Farmer and Dairyman, started by the Frank Brothers ten years before. He is best known in connection with the Sunday Mercury.

Mrs. Duniway continued to write as well as lecture for "women's rights" until her death, in 1915. In her old age she saw the triumph of her lifelong campaign in behalf of women as "people," and in 1912 she was the first woman in Multnomah county to register as a voter.

During the nineties Mrs. Duniway acted as editor of the Pacific Empire, a weekly 12-page 8×11 publication founded in 1894 by Miss Frances Gotshall as publisher and devoted to what the Ayer newspaper annual for 1897 designated as "woman stuff."

Besides her newspaper work and lecturing, Mrs. Duniway, a voluminous as well as clever writer, found time to turn out several books, some dealing with pioneer life in Oregon. Old-timers remember her as a picturesque figure who went into action on the lecture platform with a red bandana around her neck and could stir up her audience no end.

She was, of course, no echo of her brother Harvey, nor was he of her. In the free-silver days Mrs. Duniway became friendly to the free-silver idea though not a vigorous advocate of it, while Harvey Scott was the outstanding gold-standard advocate in the whole West. They disagreed also on women's suffrage and more or less on the place of women in society.

A newspaper which, with several changes of name and ownership and an occasional interruption of publication, has come down to the present, is the Commercial Reporter, started in August 1872 by R. Farrish and owned successively in the next two years by George H. Himes, J. Perchin, and S. Turner. J. F. Atkinson purchased the Reporter in July 1874, continuing until January 1, 1880, when J. R. Farrish bought a half interest and changed the name to the Commercial Reporter and Journal of Commerce. A stock company which purchased the paper four years later changed the name to the one in