 C. H. Brockhagen bought the paper, and was the publisher from 1927 until the 1931 merger with the "News".The "East Side News" was founded in 1906.It was financed by the Scripps-Canfield publishing house of Seattle, but in complete secrecy, due to a promise E. W. Scripps had made to Sam Jackson of the "Oregon Journal", not to compete in the Portland market.