The Princeton Union (Princeton, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,874 issues from 1877 to 1922, published in Princeton, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Princeton Union circulated its first issue on December 30, 1876, almost a year before the village of Princeton was organized by the Minnesota legislature in 1877. Princeton, located in central Minnesota and the seat of Mille Lacs County, was known as an important supply base and trading post for the pineries along the Rum River, as described in a special article issued on January 1, 1879, “Princeton, Its Stores, Mills, and Shops.” The Princeton Union began publishing weekly with a standard four-page, five-column format; the inner two pages consisting of patent content purchased from a news source vendor. The newspaper quit using patent pages on February 16, 1895, and thereafter contained between eight and 16 pages. Under publisher Robert C. Dunn, the Princeton Union was proudly Republican in its editorial politics. The paper printed mainly local and state news but did have some coverage of major national and international news events. The reporting on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe on the nearby reservation was largely negative.
Robert C. Dunn, who published the Union for 42 years, arrived in Princeton in 1876 at the age of 22 after emigrating from Ireland in 1870. Having previously apprenticed in the newspaper business for a number of years in St. Louis, Missouri, Dunn was hired by J. S. Brocklehurst to work for the Democratic weekly, the Princeton Appeal. Leaving town for a short trip, Brocklehurst appointed Dunn as temporary editor. Within one week, however, Dunn had…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Princeton, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- 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