The Worthington Advance (Worthington, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,746 issues from 1874 to 1908, published in Worthington, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1872 the Worthington Western Advance began weekly publication in Nobles County along Minnesota’s southwest border. The newspaper was distributed by Miller, Humiston & Company, organizer of the National Colony, and was the first publication to be released from the settlement. Promotion of the colony had its place within the Advance; however, the newspaper strived to be a true representative of the local community: progressive in politics, Protestant, and centered on agriculture. Weekly items included local, state, and political news; farm and household items; and articles on early struggles with grasshopper plagues and harsh winters. With a four-page, seven-column format, the Western Advance continued to increase circulation and changed its name to the Worthington Advance in 1874. It became the official paper of Nobles County and the village of Worthington in 1888.
During the era of the Homestead Act, a group of Ohio businessmen acquired an expanse of land along the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad in southwestern Minnesota to begin a new settlement they named the National Colony. Professor Ransom F. Humiston and A. P. Miller, both original organizers of the Colony Company, welcomed their first settlers to the town of Worthington in 1872 and also began the publication of the colony’s first newspaper. The Western Advance began as a “true and unflinching representative of the people’s interest,” promoting the Colony’s values of temperance, education, and growth of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Worthington, 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