Fergus Falls Ugeblad (Fergus Falls, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,931 issues from 1886 to 1922, published in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Fergus Falls Ugeblad (“Fergus Falls Weekly Newspaper”) began in 1882 as the second Norwegian-language newspaper in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The first paper, the Normanna Banner, was launched in 1860 and had gone out of business. John Schroeder, the Banner’s publisher, sold his type and printing press to A. (Adoniram) J. Underwood, the editor of the Fergus Falls Journal. Underwood saw a continued need for a Norwegian-American newspaper in Otter Tail County, especially one with a Republican orientation. So he formed a new publishing company and hired A. (Aslak) K. Teisberg as editor. The Ugeblad continued the numbering of the Banner and began as a four-page weekly printed in Dano-Norwegian (at the time Danish was the basis for the Norwegian written language) with a Fraktur font. The paper contained international news, particularly from Norway and Denmark; national news with regular columns highlighting news from Chicago and Washington; and state and local news from the Fergus Falls area.
Situated in the farming region of the Red River Valley of Northwestern Minnesota, Fergus Falls was a stop on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroad lines. It had been incorporated in the late 1870s and became a center for Norwegian immigrants, many of them part of an earlier wave of immigration to Chicago and Minneapolis. With abundant water power, Fergus Falls was adjacent to pine forest, hardwood lumber, and prairie land and was also known for its flour milling and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States
- 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