The Plain Dealer was a weekly Saturday newspaper in Kadina, South Australia, operating from 1894 until 1926 as a smaller competitor to the Kadina and Wallaroo Times.
[1] Yorke's Peninsula Plain Dealer was established in August 1894 by John Albert Southwood and George Spring,[2] who had previously managed the Katoomba Times in New South Wales together.
[3] The owners also opened a subsidiary mid-week weekly newspaper, the Copper Age in August 1906, with content similar to the Dealer, but it was closed in December 1908.
Spring then managed the newspaper alone until 8 January 1926, when the newspaper abruptly closed, likely due to the drop in circulation following the closure of the Wallaroo Mines.
[4][1] The National Library of Australia has digitised photographic copies of early issues which may be accessed via Trove.