- Stavanger Avis
"Stavanger Avis" was a Norwegian newspaper, published in
Stavanger inRogaland county. Its allegiance was Liberal."Stavanger Avis" was started in 1888 as "Rogalands Folkeblad", its name changed in 1889. [http://www.willyslekt.no/artikkel/5019.html List of historical newspapers] ] The first editors were
Oddmund Vik [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=13117 Oddmund Vik] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ] andAlexander Kielland . [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kielland/slekt/per00049.htm#0 Alexander Kielland biography] ] In 1899 the newspaper absorbed a competitor, "Stavangeren".b]Vik left the position as chief editor in 1908.b] The new editor,
Lars Kleiveland took a stance against temperance and prohibition. The populace did not take kindly to this, [http://www.historier.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2392&Itemid=86 Excerpt from the book Byen og menneskene, by Theodor Dahl (1947).] ] and "Stavanger Avis" went defunct in 1911,b] survived by a competing Liberal newspaper "Stavanger Aftenblad "b] which still exists.References
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