[3] The Darling Downs Gazette, founded at Drayton by Arthur Sidney Lyon, began publication in a wooden shanty on 10 June 1858.
[citation needed]The Chronicle, founded by Darius Hunt, began as a fourpenny weekly on 4 July 1861 in a coachbuilder's shop in James Street.
[citation needed] On 4 February 1876, William Henry Groom became sole proprietor, beginning nearly half a century of family control of a newspaper that he transformed into a powerful and persuasive political weapon.
The reason for the buried treasure was reported as a result of a family that fled Germany due to religious discrimination and stored it for safekeeping.
Here, in excess of 1.5 million negatives that were published in the Toowoomba Chronicle (from 1953 - 2002) and 37,000 editions of the newspaper (from 1861 - 2009) are stored in the University of Southern Queensland.
[12] Trove has also recently added over sixteen years of The Toowoomba Chronicle’s previous publications in digitised form to their library.
[13] These archived articles draw light to significant moments in Toowoomba’s history, such as the Great Depression Camp for unemployed men.
[14] In celebration of the newspaper’s one hundred and fiftieth birthday, an exhibition titled “Toowoomba Through The Chronicle Lens” at the Cobb+Co Museum was built and marketed.
This featured the championed Walkley Award winning image by The Chronicle’s Photographer Nev Madsen that illustrates a flood rescue scene.
These works included an elephant race, a man comforting a sick horse and a car that drove off a bridge while towing a caravan.
During the year of 2020, the most distributed post about Prince Charles and Camilla reached 1.4 million people, achieved 900 reactions and over 1,100 comments.
APN Newspapers[16] describes this medium as a way to “bring all the news that matters in your community” to a mobile phone or tablet format.
A link to the daily edition of the newspaper is also provided on the top left of the home page, where subscribers can access their rewards without Courier-Mail.