Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger Und Herold (Grand Island, Nebraska)
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889 issues from 1901 to 1918, published in Grand Island, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger, or “Nebraska State Advertiser,” was a German-language newspaper founded in Lincoln in 1880. While its earliest issues were Republican in sentiment, it later prided itself on taking an independent viewpoint. As with many of the state’s German-language newspapers, the editors of the Staats-Anzeiger urged German nationals to settle in Nebraska, where land was abundant and inexpensive. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, more Germans came to Nebraska than any other national group.
The publishers of the Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger, August Esser and Henry Schaal, were originally from Germany and had previous newspaper experience in Nebraska and Illinois, respectively. Esser had been an associate editor and a traveling agent, while Schaal had been a “compositor” or typesetter. One contemporary source described the Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger as “a neat, well-conducted paper, devoted to the interests of the locality and [which] gives all the important domestic and foreign intelligence.” At its height, the 18″ x 24″ newspaper had a circulation of 2,765 subscribers paying $2 per week.
The Grand Island Anzeiger, a similar German language paper, ran from 1889-1893, and was succeeded by the Grand Island Anzeiger und Herold.
In 1901, the Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger merged with the Grand Island Anzeiger und Herold, or “Grand Island Advertiser and Herald,” to form the Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger und Herold. Published in Grand Island, Nebraska, by the Anzeiger-Herald…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Grand Island, Nebraska, United States
- Language
- German
- 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