A few months later, a fire caused considerable damage to its Ellen Street premises, but with help from a local jobbing printer publication continued, albeit in a more modest form.
[8] On 1 December 1931 the paper was sold to Horace Yelland (died 27 August 1948) (previously editor of The News and The Sunday Mail) and his company Recorder Proprietary Limited.
Again, publication was reduced to a single sheet but four days later had returned to full size with graphic photos and descriptions of the episode.
After that paper ceased publication, Osborne contributed a weekly column "Personal Reminiscences" to The Recorder, which continued until 1950, a few years before his death.
The paper's worst disaster struck on 22 January 1941 when Pirie's Central Mission was destroyed by fire, which spread to the Recorder's offices causing immense damage.