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| History of The Red Deer Advocate |
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 Eventually, after two editors had come and gone, one of the owners approached F.W. Galbraith of the Guelph (Ontario) Mercury and asked him to become the editor and manager, for the princely sum of $96 a month. Mr. Galbraith went one better, and offered to buy the paper, which he did in November of 1906, when he also changed the name to The Red Deer Advocate. He also offered a statement of the newspaper's goal: "to promote the peace, welfare, and prosperity of the people of the district and town of Red Deer."
"The Advocate at that time had a circulation of 600 to 700," Mr. Galbraith wrote in The Red Deer Advocate later. "It was supposed to be issued on Friday mornings, but the foreman, who had not been on the job at Red Deer much longer than a year, and Mr. Cowell, who was not experienced, did not always make the grade: the week before I came in I believe most of the issues went out on Monday morning. We had a regular outside helper to turn the wheel on the newspaper press and he had varying assistants. The first week I was in possession, neither of our outside helpers could be found, so the staff took turns at the wheel, the new proprietor helping some."
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