On Thursday, The Oregonian will mark its 175th anniversary.
The milestone makes The Oregonian older than the state of Oregon, older than Portland’s city government, and the longest continuously published newspaper west of Salt Lake City.
On Dec. 4, 1850, founding editor Thomas J. Dryer cranked out the first issue on a Ramage hand press inside a crude log cabin at Front and Morrison streets. Its masthead carried a lofty promise: “Equal Rights, Equal Laws and Equal Justice to all Men.”…