Tägliche Omaha Tribüne (Omaha, Nebr.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,152 issues from 1912 to 1920, published in Omaha, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Tägliche Omaha Tribüne (1912-26), or the “Daily Omaha Tribune,” was founded by newspaper-entrepreneur Valentin (Val) Joseph Peter (1875-1960). According to various sources, it was “one of the most widely-circulated and influential German dailies in the country.” Aside from its pronounced pro-German stance, particularly before the United States entered World War I, the Tägliche Omaha Tribüne was largely independent.
When Val Peter was 14 years old, his family left Germany and moved to Rock Island, Illinois, where he soon worked as a reporter for the semiweekly Volkszeitung, or “Peoples’ Newspaper” Within three years, Peter was the city editor of a daily German-language newspaper, the Peoria Sonne, or the “Peoria Sun.” Thanks to a loan from the Sonne‘s publishers, Peter returned to Rock Island to purchase the Volkszeitung, which he continued to edit until its sale in 1909.
In 1907, Peter purchased two Omaha newspapers—the Westliche Presse or “Western Press,” and the Nebraska Tribüne; the two soon merged to form the Nebraska Tribüne und Westliche Presse (1907-09). After moving permanently to Omaha in 1909, Peter published several succeeding titles—the Omaha Tribüne in 1909-12, and later the Tägliche Omaha Tribüne.
Peter became an outspoken member of the Nebraska chapter of the National German-American Alliance and served as its first and only president. During World War I, nativists deeply resented the passionate pro-German position of his editorials. The Tribüne’s…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Omaha, 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