The Alvarado Pioneer newspaper was started in 1929 by George H. Oakes and printed in a small shack on Union City Boulevard (Levee Street at that time.) The Alvarado Pioneer was published weekly in Alvarado, Alameda County, California, Home of Holly Sugar Corp. and Leslie Salt Company. George H. Oakes was Editor and Publisher.
A subscription cost $1 per year. Named Newspaper of Legal Status by Judge Harries, it was entered as second-class matter on March 26, 1947 at the Post Office at Alvarado, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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