The Transcontinental is a weekly newspaper published in Port Augusta, South Australia which dates from October 1914.
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History
The Transcontinental was founded by James Clarence Barclay (1873– ), editor, who with his wife Agnes Fleming Barclay, née Johnstone (1877–1946), were owners and operators of the North Western Star or North Western Star and Frome Journal published in Wilmington from 1912 to at least 1916.
Mrs. Barclay, and perhaps James, who died before 1929, moved to Brisbane, Queensland, where their daughter Dulcie Elma Barclay was crowned "Miss Queensland" by Smith's Weekly in 1926. In 1929, at age 20, she took her own life after being abandoned by her boyfriend. Mrs. Barclay was later involved in the death of a man from caustic soda burns received at her home on Hope Street, South Brisbane.From Vol. 1, No.3, the proprietor was John Ernest Edwards (died 1955), previously on the literary staff of The Advertiser and editor was Maurice Henry Hill (died 1957).
Lindsay Riches was editor from 1927.
The office of The Transcontinental has throughout its history been located in Tassie Street, Port Augusta.
The Transcontinental is today a publication of Fairfax Regional Media.
Digitization
The National Library of Australia has digitized photographic copies of most issues of The Transcontinental from 7 November 1914 (Vol. 1 No.3) to 8 June 1951, and may be accessed via Trove.