Toveritar (Astoria, Or.) 19??-1930
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
359 issues from 1915 to 1922, published in Astoria, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
With the movement of immigrant groups to the United States, Astoria, Oregon, became home to the largest Finnish settlement west of the Mississippi. Serving the local Finnish community was Toveri (“Daily Comrade”), a socialist newspaper. Concerned with promoting women’s rights, the Finnish women in Astoria persuaded Toveri‘s stockholders to launch a newspaper just for them. The stockholders agreed if the women could collect at least 3,000 subscriptions. They succeeded, and Toveritar (“Woman Comrade”) made its debut in 1911. The Western Workman’s Cooperative Publishing Co. published both newspapers.
The weekly Toveritar appeared on Tuesdays. It was published primarily in Finnish, although every once in a while, an article in English was printed. Each issue featured Toveritar’s tagline in both Finnish and English: “Amerika suomalaisten työläisnaisten äären-kannattaja”/”Organ of the Finnish Working Women in America.”
Initially, Toveritar had an eight-page spread with four columns. Eventually, it grew to 12 pages. A yearly subscription cost $1 and a single issue $0.60. (For readers across the border in Canada, a yearly subscription was $1.25 and a single issue $0.75.) In 1930, Toveritar‘s final year of operation, a yearly subscription cost $2 and the per-issue price was $1.15. (In Canada, the rates were $2.25 and $1.25, respectively.)
Toveritar saw several notable women editors. Ida Pasanen had been active in several socialist organizations, including one based in Two…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Astoria, Oregon, United States
- Language
- Finnish
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress