Narodni Vestnik = National Herald (Duluth, Minn.) 1911-????
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
271 issues from 1911 to 1914, published in Duluth, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
Hailing from southern central Europe near the Adriatic Sea, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Slovenes first started immigrating to Minnesota in the 1860s. They settled first in Stearns County in the central part of the state and worked primarily as farmers. Beginning in the mid-1880s, a second wave of Slovenes arrived, spurred on by the demand for workers in the meat packing industries of South Saint Paul and by the rapid growth of iron mining in the northeastern part of the state, known as the Iron Range.
In February 1911, a group of Slovenian miners and merchants living in the Iron Range incorporated the Slovenian Print & Publishing Company in Duluth, Minnesota. Formed with the specific intention of publishing a newspaper to serve the area’s Slovenian population, the Slovenian Print & Publishing Company published the first issue of Narodni Vestnik (“National Herald”) on April 13, 1911.
An eight-page, six-column newspaper, published in Slovenian, Narodni Vestnik had a peak circulation of 7,500 in 1917, covering the city of Duluth and greater Saint Louis County. Narodni Vestnik published at first on a weekly schedule, increasing in 1913 to semi-weekly. By 1914, it would become, to quote the paper’s own masthead, “The only Slovenian tri-weekly in the United States of America.” The Narodni Vestnik was one of two Slovenian American newspapers published in Minnesota. The other was the Amerikanski Slovenec (“American Slovenian”), which was started in 1891 in Chicago, but…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Duluth, 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