Inside the Original Mercury… Circa the Late 1800s

Inside the Original Mercury… Circa the Late 1800s

The lurid history of the “unspeakably offensive” Sunday Mercury. by Joe Streckert [Find the Mercury's 25th Anniversary Issue (in print) near you by using this handy-dandy map, and read all of our anniversary stories here.—eds.] Little known fact: The Portland Mercury takes its name from one of the most notorious weeklies from the dawn of Oregon history. During the latter half of the 1800s, the Sunday Mercury was widely known and beloved for its …