Gold Town Newspaper

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The Gold Town Newspaper are a vital source of information in Gold Town, West Virginia, and have been so since the 1870's, back during the American West. They appear in three Red Dead series and the Manhunt series. Y'know, the games that take place in West Virginia.

"Read all about it! The Mayor has announced the 6th annual Battle Royale!"

— Jody, selling the paper

Info[]

The player is able to purchase the Gold Town newspapers in Gold Town for a fee, depending on the player's honour level and date. Juicer subjects cost more than regular subjects. The man who sells the fuakers in Golden Town is Hal Pollard.

Newspapers give the player access to side missions or ambient events, and can be read day to day and night to night, if the playa' feels like it.

In RD, the paper reports of the various events taking place in the world, and players can often find the adventures of John Marston or Jack Marston inside, usually a few days after the character does a certain thing the world remembers. The Gold Town Newspaper is distinctly developed from the more basic frontier newspapers of the earlier times, containing a range of articles from various journalists, advertisements, propaganda, political pamphlets and smaller notices from businesses.

The year of publishing for an edition of the Golden Newspaper is given in roman numerals in the top left corner of the page for all editions, since the writer of the paper preferred roman numbers over the uh, Arabic ones.

At the lower right corner, the player can read a variety of strange sentences, which are actually a part of a Satanic conspiracy, involving the earliest known works of Jacques Dixmor and his cronies.

Known Issues[]

Here is some important info from some purchasable issues of the newspaper which may or may not be important to the plot of the games the newspaper company appears in.

Boonie MacFarlane eventually married, apparently to Anus, before the two went on a vacation to Escalera in Mexico, where Anus died.
Seth Brains, a known treasure hunter and a rumoured criminal, finally finds some treasure, in Nekoti Mountain, right before Brumas the Bear eats his him alive.
Edgar Rose retired after 9 years and moved to a house by Lake Don Julio where he lived until Jack Marston killed him.
Leg Johnson: The legendary Marshal and former Mayor of Silver Town, Leg Johnson was killed in Thief's Town this morning. He died about a week before he would step down as the marshal and mayor of Silver Town after 17 years of service. When asked what needs to be done lastly, he said he needs to help the other marshals beat Roe's Criminals to submission in Thief's Town in an ambush for all of the recent murders they committed. He helped them and killed most of 'em, but a member known as Zebedee Nash shot him in the ribs and Johnson died a slow death in the middle of the street while his marshal buddies suffered a similar fate.
Ugly Gang was murdered entirely by a single bounty hunter in Widow's Palace this morning. However, the sheriff there, Paul O'Grady, was injured during a confrontation between the mysterious bounty hunter and Ugly Chris Bailey, but he managed to survive thanks to the bounty hunter's help in bringing the ageing marshal to Brimstone. Peoples are wondering what will happen to Widow's Palace now, that there is no lawman left to protect it. Luckily, there also isn't a massive gang of crooks there now to attack it, right?
Pig Josh, a former student of one of Brimstone's silver citizens, was rumoured to have been the one who blew up a bathhouse in a hotel in Brimstone a while back. Apparently, Joshua is hold up with Perry's Circus somewhere in the wilderness.
Residents of Black Town in Texas had mysteriously started missing and most are rumoured to have been found dead. No one seems to know what has caused such a sudden epidemic of death. The only known survivor of Black Town appears to be the town's very own undertaker and mayor, Mr. Black.
Abraham Reys, leader of libertarian peasants in Mexico, managed to defeat General Sanchez and become the brand new President of Mexico, but he turned out to be just another tyrant, like Sanchez, Allende and Diego before him. Reys is rumoured to starve his own people, take all the money for himself, rape women and men alike and has protesters shot on spot. What a madman.
Harold McDougal, a professor in Yale, was seen beating up one of the local prostitutes in a brothel in Connecticut, thus his licence was took and he will never be able to study anthropology again. McDougal used to be the Professor who studied Native Americans in Gold Town's region.
Mayor Griffon, the well-respected Democratic Mayor of Brimstone, has announced for 6th annual Battle Royal duelling competition to take place this Wednesday. The current champion, Mr. Kelley, has been the winner of each Battle for four years now.
Landon Ricketts heads out to California after a long and bloody shootout with the Butcher brothers in the middle of our town.
Abner Forsythe was found dead two days ago in the middle of Gold Town, near the Saloon. He was a preacher form the Christian Temperance Movement and his preaching could be the cause of his death. His assassin however, remains unknown.
The criminal Arthur Morgan, member of Dutch's Gang, was found dead three days ago up in the mountains in Louisiana, with a large hole in his head. It is currently unknown who killed him, but it might have been one of the Pinkertens after he resisted arrest, no doubt.
A large, black, winged creature known by the locals and the Natives as the Mothman, was once again spotted in Tall Trees. Two campers, a man and a woman, who survived the encounter claimed that the creature chased after them after they just roasted their marshmallows, but hid in some caves and survived the night after the winged monster gave up.
The notorious Dutch criminal, know as Dutch van der Linde, was shot by Edgar Rose yesterday in the mountainous areas of the Tall Trees, finally ending his reign of terror over West Virginia. The locals and the BOI had declared Rose a hero for this and deservingly so, he did kill one of the worst human beings imaginable after all.
President Nate Johnson congratulated the American people and their response to the call to arms as North and South joined together to defeat Canada, saying that Canada is no longer an ally, and that the United States stand as the strongest nation in the western hemisphere. The "splendid little war" saw the U.S. Army defeat the moose-riding Canadian fleet in a mere few hours ago. Not one American life was lost in that skirmish, but all of the Canadian ones, which had led to some of Johnson's political opponents, like Aldous Warthington, declare Johnson a "genocidal dictator". However, truth is that if not for President Johnson's leadership, the Canadian invaders would probably be able to take over Northern America and add it to their empire, which they used to own with the Russian Empire.
Investigators and historians gathered last week to check out some weird cave carvings on top of the caves of Fallen Creek, where they purported that it was the last hiding spot of The Flatwoods Monster, whom the locals refer to as "Braxie". The historian known as Jeremy Jones has discovered several mysterious rock carvings around the cave and claimed they point to a great meaning, a mystery he intends to solve, as the craves turned out to show some sort of a "flying circular object" above the caricature of Braxie. Religious leaders, who worship the water, like Anderson Helgerson, have grown concerned with his works, worrying that others will get caught up in his heretical beliefs and start worshipping "foreign beings", like Braxie.
The most so-called magical and wonder machine of railroad engineering of the 19th century, Pan-Atlantic uh, railroad, was robbed in broad daylight by bandanna-wearing outlaws yesterday in Texas on the way to Brimstone. Headed by the notorious Mexican outlaws, the Pedrosa Brothers - Rico and Roberto, the Pedrosa Gang boarded and stopped the train shortly after it had departed from Widow's Palace. However, the robbery didn't succeed, as the mysterious bounty hunter that took down the Ugly gang earlier and saved Sheriff O'Grady, managed to kick off the Mexican outlaws off the train as well. Shortly after the robbery and arrival to Brimstone, the train was set in motion further, but the train's engineer, Hank Pallman, ended up being a bit wounded, but he claimed it was no big deal, for he has a special batch with him which heals him up every time. He claims that in his eyes, stepping off that train he drives is the same as stepping out of a battlefield.
After what everyone who saw it call a "bloody shootout", an event resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of cash being robbed from our local bank, and the Pinkerton Detective Agency officials have restricted access to Gold Town while a massive manhunt is underway. Officials issued bounties on the heads of Dutch's Wild Boys, as the robbery was lead by the Netherlander himself and his bad boys. Banks looked to shipping assets via boat as a more reliable means of transportation, impervious to thieves, something which proved most delightful as notorious bank robbers like Roe's Criminals ceased robbing after this. The deadly attack committed by Dutch's gang resulted in the loss of $150,000 - the largest robbery in this region in recent years. Authorities believe that the men may have stashed the money in various mountainous areas before fleeing. Reports indicate that many are searching high and low for the stash and the criminals who committed this act, especially the leading: Daniel van der Linde, Hosea Matthews and Arther B. Morgan.
A series of late night sightings of alien, monstrous and outerworldy creatures rendered the Tall Trees and surrounding areas, like the Gritzlies impassable for camping during the night. Catching many unprepared, creatures like the fat fury being, known to the local Natives as the Sasquatch, Braxie, Mothman and a fuaking demonic imp, roam the forests for food and for their own sadistic pleasure. Recently, corpses of 6 teenagers were discovered in areas near the Aurora Lake and Nekoti Mountain, with their tongues cut from their throats, their limbs torn off, their bellies ripped open wide, or choked out with green liquid spurring from their faces. Enter the woods at your own risk, especially at night, and by the nine divines, please BE ARMED and stocked on AMMO.
Not since General Ignacio Sanchez seized the presidency of Mehiko have relations been so good with the U.S. Among lowered tensions, General Sanchaz has had many meetings already with Mr. Johnson, who looks forward in bettering the relations between US of A and Mexico. The President said the U.S. has provided resources over the years, including help in ending the Apache Wars ten years ago, and what a victory it was for both sides, as the Apaches were known for scalping their enemies and throwing their corpses to the wolves. No American or Mexican has ever been this sadistic.
The black prostitute known as Bad Bessie has fled the Brimstone Saloon after whipping the barman, Hanz Kenyon and taking it off with the lot. Bessie has since been a known killer and she has been spending the past few weeks hiding at her self-named canyon with similar other criminals, such as Sissy Fess and Cooper. The people of Brimstone in Mississippi would be much obliged if someone hunted this bad biatch down.
A statewide manhunt is under way in Louisiana for the Anderson Gang, the brutal and bloodthirsty gang of cutthroat killers who have taken to kidnapping, raping and ransoming locals. Led by Victor "The Killer" Anderson, these outlaws are responsible for a spate of violent attacks, mass murders, rapes, arsons, robberies, gerrymandering, petty theft and resisting arrest. Fear has run rampant in that state as word spread that Anderson and his boys are planning on going to other states to continue with their rapes, robberies and murders. The state of Louisiana would be most obliged if someone hung these bastards.
Thompson Town has reported many strange sights, winds and sounds in recent years, and residents speak of a curse that has fallen onto the city. Spectral stagecoaches have been seen riding around the church, and the cries of mourning Indian mothers have been heard at night along with evil, wicked laughter of demonic beings being heard, never the church. At other times, usually on windy, starlit evenings, piercing cries are heard from the distance, remind one of Mexican warriors who lost their lands long ago. Residents claim they have no idea where this curse could've had come from, but unjust slaughter of Native Americans, Mexicans and Satanic rituals are the most common reasons, people say. Hell, some folks are claiming the town will soon turn into just another Black Town, but that will surely never happen. The railroad from Black Town to Silver Town will never be built. EVER!
An epidemic of a deadly, bubonic plague has broken out in India, Thailand (or Thongland or whatever it's called) and Hong Kong and spread to our brave American troops in the Philippines. Like a mean, fiendish tropic virus spitting bile on all you whores, several of our soldiers have died in Manila of what was called "a loathsome disease.", sharing many symptoms to smallpox even and reeked of rats. Despite the best efforts in the sanitary science camp to stamp it out, the plague appears to have resurfaced again and killed most of our men there. The vaccines are ineffective.
In New York, Virginia and Saint Pennis, there were four victims confirmed of a vampire attack. Four folks were inspected closely by each local police department and their throats were found to have holes in 'em, akin to a dog bite and all of the four died from blood poisoning. Who the hell did that might either be a real vampire or a loony pretending to be one, apparently sickened with AIDS or HIV that makes people's blood get poisoned and then they die!
The feud between two and old banking families, the Dixmors and the Cornets, began almost a century ago and has finally come to a peaceful uh, headstop when Jacques Dixmor broker an alliance with Don J. Cornet. Most of the Dixmor Dynasty members include doctors, investors, gamblers and political figures other than banksters, similarly to the Cornets. Peoples are saying that the two families' wealth combined is over 60 billion dollars, which is more what even Leviticus Cornwall or Thomas Harlow have! Telegraphic and telephone communication is common between the two families now that peace has been established, but what exactly are the two wicked dynasties plotting and talking about in their letters? No one truly knows, but whatever it is, can't be good for the common man.
Hector B. E. Bennett has broken the land speed record in his amazing marvel of a modern engineering, the Stanton Ohio Steamer. Modified from an old model from the the Pan-Atlantic railroad, Hector took it to a known mechanic in New York, who fixed, edited and reconstructed his boat of a train and with it Hector's model reached 127.66 mph!
The Thompson Town in Gaptooth Ride has finally been abandoned by all of its residents due to all of the spookiness, paranormal sightings, demonic screechings and moaning of already dead Native mothers that's been happening there for the past few years. The streets are now desolate. The empty buildings now filled with vermin. The richest guy's mansion is broken and abandoned. All the families? Gone. Thompson Town, a remote settlement in G. Ridge, Texas, was once a bustling place with many a people, which now seems to be nothing more than just a complete clone or copy of Black Town. What happened? What the hell happened? When one of our editors went to meet with the sheriff of that now accursed town, Claud Benfiled, the two actually went around the town to investigate what all of the fuss was really about. When the pair came to the old church Benfiled alone went inside while our boy scouted the graveyard. What happened next shocked him. Benfiled ran out of the church like a leopard and when asked what he saw, he only replied: "Ghosts".
Read all about it, folks: Gicov Bell was killed yesterday by an angry former ally back from when he ran with Dutch's wild boys. Bell was believed to be hiding in the Grizzlies and the surrounding mountains for many blue moons, emerging to sow mayhem and murder and just to spread chaos all around West Virginia, amongst other places like the regular Varginia and Louisiana. Full name Gicov Bell III, one of the most notorious outlaws of the region and a former right-hand of Danny van der Linde, was slain at his cabin on Mount Harris along with his gang members, like the infamous Leopold Strauss, a German loanshark and a man known to the authorities only as "Bad Jo", a mean-looking outlaw who looked even more intimidating than Gicov. Despite his criminal background, Gicov and Strauss were known allies to the Pinkertons and they played a significant role in destroying Dutch's wild bunch, making the situation more of a grey one than a black and white one. Him and Strauss apparently had sworn an oath to the Pinkerton Detective Agency that Dutch would be swinging soon for everything he's done, yet we have no current knowledge on Van der Linde's whereabouts, only that his gang fell apart a year ago, so it was a successful oath to an extend for Gicov and Leo. Despite being on the side of the law, at least the Pinkertons, several sheriffs and US Marshals had been elected in the country and each had vowed to bring Mr. Bell to justice. One particularly vocal, Marshal Randolph Knox, made many speeches that he will succeed in capturing Gicov and have him hung for all the murders and robberies he committed, yet it seems that Gicov's former gang partner single-handedly destroyed Gicov's gang at Mount Harris, thus he beat him off to it.
A sense of unease and uncertainty has arisen among landowners around West Virginia as a wave of real estate speculations are sweeping throughout the country and large cattle ranchers are offering large sums for small ranches. Headed by Mr. Fred Cattlington, the Farmers' Natural Cattle Association seems intent on remaking the West in their own image with all of the farms and ranches they bought, having recently acquired Hanging Dog Ranch to herd sheep, goats, and cattle and a considerable number of acres around Strawberry to herd even more cow and even bulls. Property agents from the Dixmor Association, lead by the notorious Jacques Dixmor are visiting small farm owners on Freddy's behalf, offering large sums under their new economic model to own their ranches, livestock and farms for Cattlington and Dixmor to own. While opponents of Fred and Zhak say that their way of life is perishing and the future might be lost, others argue that America is a country of progress and those clinging to the homesteader ideals are firmly stuck in the past and will be cut off from the future and if their kids turn out to be exactly like how their parents and grandparents are, they'll be living in squatter, raging and cursing at their ancestors for resisting the offers of Cattlington and Dixmor. Scale, the experts say, will always win out, so for your sakes, sell your stuff to Cattlington and Dix.
A stagecoach and five passengers are missing when their coach headed into the Tall Trees at around 8 PM, and friends and families of those journeying on it are fearing the worst. Each day and each night, Mathilda Francine has been expecting some words from the local sheriffs that her daughter, Judith, had been found, safe and sound, but no such news had came around yet. Although we all try to keep the positive attitude, their is a large possibility that one of the monsters that lurk and live in those Trees had killed them all and stole the coach. Since the forest is known to be a home to aliens, like the Mothman and Braxie, and furry bastards, like Bigfoot and numerous Grizzly bears, perhaps we should be prepared for the worst. Multiple coaches came and departed after its scheduled terminus during the day in Tall Trees, and none had word of, nor had seen or heard anything about the missing vehicle. This may be due to the daylights in the woods scaring away the creatures and these type of monsters. The disappeared coach in question was carrying a bearded man, two women, including Mathilda's daughter, and a small boy suffering from pneumonia, not counting the Afro-American stagecoach driver. If it is indeed true that everyone has been killed and eaten by the monsters who lurk there at night, then the families' of those who travelled with the coach, will need to make some funeral arrangements pronto.
We have a bad case of cow disappearances lately. A local farmer, using the pseudonym as Jeremy Clark, claims that his three cows disappeared from home not as long as two weeks ago. Jeremy claims that he was sleeping in his warm bed, when at 2:12 AM, a large, green-looking, shining and circular disk appeared outside of his house and took his cows. At first Clark thought he had too much to drink, but his wife and son, who ran into his room to warn him, said they saw the exact same thing. The three cows missing in question are a black one with white spots, a brown one with a white underbelly and a black one with uh, a broken horn and three black spots, plus an injured utter. What the Hell was that circular thing that took poor Mr. Clark's cows? Citizens of West Virginia and the surrounding states, please beware of staying out at night, especially if alone and without any weaponry as clearly, there are some forces beyond our understanding about and they want your cows!
Despite the recent murder of her owner, the Cornwall & Tar continues to operate and crush Native American balls. After the Wapitis had fled to Canada, drilling began on the reservation's land by orders of Cornwall's cousin who now controls the firm. The amount of oil discovered turned out to be large af and drilling was quickly fastened up due to the amount of profit. Ultimately, Cornwall's campaign to drive the Wapitis from their lands was successful despite his death, as even now his cousin is swimming in money.
Professor, or at least a so-called self-proclaimed professor, Charles Kaneir, has worked tirelessly for several years on a flying machine with wings to be used for war and exploring purposes. His flying tool, a bird looking wooden plank with wings attached to it, was used by Mr. Kanear himself to be launched from a top of a large hill or cliff somewhere in Northern Mehiko in Nuevo Paraíso. Unfortunately, Mr. Kanear died from the impact of the fall, as his machine couldn't really fly. His experiment... failed.
Read all about it, folks! Mr. Damien Chesterson, a wealthy man who owns a theatre somewhere in Dallas and self-trained opera singer who most recently travelled to New York City to sing on Broadway, was robbed while travelling through Tall Trees. The ruse began as a man purporting to be in the business of throwing musicals and juggling fire bottles stopped the wagon Mr. Chesterson was travelling in and asked him for an impromptu audition. Happy to oblige, he sang his heart out and stepped out of the coach. Little did he know the man had an "accomplice" hiding beneath his shirt. While Damien was singing his heart out even more, making his shirt bleed, the robber pulled out his gun of an accomplice and demanded Chesterson's prised possessions and a great deal of currency. Having no choice since all of Damien's co-stagecoachers were cowards, including the driver, Chesterson gave all of his valuables to the robber. Upon making his report to the local magistrate, he chastised him for not hunting down nefarious elements in the region and allowing robbery and thieving to run across West Virginia unchecked. The newly-appointed BOI director, Edgar Rose, claims that he has it all under control and that the west will be tamed and everyone who ever stole... will be brought to justice!
Campers who prefer to camp in the swampy and murky areas of Sand's Grass, near the Steelwater Creek, are on edge as reports circulate of murders and robberies committed by nearby dwellers of the town called Thief's Town. Believed to be responsible for the murder of Doris Whitcomb and robbery of numerous campers who wander near it, attacks have escalated and citizens are warned to avoid the town. These elusive swamp locales are believed to be the homes, well most possibly are, the homes of Winkler's Gang and British's Gang amongst others. These two notorious gangs have haunted Texas for months (hell, British boys for years) and for anyone who plans on going camping to Sand's Grass, AVOID THIEF'S TOWN at all cost! The criminals living there don't have any mercy and will not hesitate to kill you, should you not give them over your belongings. If you don't have any, you're as good as dead. Oh, and speaking of camping, also watch out if you plan on camping in Tall Trees, especially at night. The place is full of alien monsters.
For many years, citizens of Indian Hills lived in fear and many have fallen victim to the savagery of the ruthless Irish's Gang that seems to run Silver Town. They have robbed coaches, battered women and men alike, murdered, tortured, and committed scummery that shouldn't even be mentioned. But perhaps the citizens of Indian Hills, well residents, will now be a bit relieved to know that one notorious member of Irish's boys, Mo van Barr, has been captured by Marshal Leg Johnson at some moulded house and is gonna swing soon.

Bounties for his death or capture have long been posted far and wide. However, no one would have thought it that Silver's own marshal and Mayor, Mr. Johnson, would be the one to finally capture one of the main members of the mick gang. However, even if Mo swings tomorrow (which he will), numerous other members of said gang are still at large, including its leader Walton Lowe and the likes of Sonny Higbee and Link Huston. If anyone wonders where to look for this boys to bring them in, just go to the Silver Saloon. Rumours have it that most of them usually drink there during days and nights.

TBA...