The Organized Farmer (Red Wing, Minn.)
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682 issues from 1919 to 1932, published in Red Wing, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Organized Farmer was a weekly newspaper that first appeared on June 12, 1919, in Red Wing, Minnesota. It was founded by Red Wing businessman, progressive activist, and former state legislator Frederick A. Scherf. The first editor was William English, who previously worked for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota. With the motto "Watch Us Grow," the paper described itself as the "Official Organ of the MN branch of the Farmer Labor Party of America."
During the 1920s, the Organized Farmer competed with the Red Wing Republican and the Red Wing Daily Eagle for readers. Notably, as the only paper voicing the interests of the Farmer-Labor Party in Goodhue County, it was the main source of regional support for Floyd B. Olson during the 1930 Minnesota gubernatorial election. Olson's win was a great feat for the third-party candidate who represented the Farmer-Labor party against Republican and Democratic nominees.
In 1927, Scherf appointed the "mother" of the Farm-Labor Party, Susie Williamson Stageberg, as editor. Stageberg was a strong advocate for women's suffrage and authored a regular column for the Minnesota Leader (the state's Nonpartisan League newspaper) titled "As a Woman Sees It." As editor, she increased circulation and decreased the newspaper's debt. However, Scherf wanted to see the paper move in a more radical direction, and Stageberg was removed from her position in 1929 and replaced by Francis H. Shoemaker.
As publisher, Shoemaker used the newspaper as a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Red Wing, 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