Svenska Monitoren (Sioux City, Iowa) 18??-1939
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1,357 issues from 1896 to 1924, published in Sioux City, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
Sioux City, Iowa, had many foreign language newspapers, mostly during the 1880s and 1890s, with some lasting into the early 1900s. Almost all of these were Swedish papers, including the Barometern, the Nya Nordwestern, the Nordwestern, Skandia, the Svenska Amerikanska Pressen, and the Svenska-Amerikanska Nyheter. The Norwegian Sioux City Tidende and the German Sioux City Volksfreund were also published in Sioux City during this time.
The longest-running Swedish language newspaper in Sioux City was the Svenska Monitoren. It was established in 1895 by Otto E. Jacobson. Jacobson was born in Sweden and worked as a florist before coming to the United States in 1887 at the age of 21. He first went to Omaha, Nebraska, to visit his brother, Carl A. Jacobson, intending to stay for six months before returning to Sweden. During his visit, Jacobson changed his mind and felt he had better business opportunities if he stayed in the US permanently. He joined his brother in business at the Svenska Posten, a Swedish newspaper in Omaha. After four years, in 1891, Jacobsen moved to Sioux City and established the Svenska Amerikanska Pressen with Charles Sandstrom and Jacob Vatters. Jacobsen left the paper after only six months, and another six months after his departure, the paper ceased publication. He then established a job printing office, before launching the Svenska Monitoren in 1895.
The Svenska Monitoren was Republican in politics and focused on local news, political discussion, and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Sioux City, Iowa, United States
- Language
- Swedish
- 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