The Sauk Centre Herald (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-Current
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2,855 issues from 1886 to 1941, published in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
An Independent Republican paper, the Sauk Centre Herald serves the predominantly agricultural communities of northwestern Stearns County, Minnesota, located in the west central area of the state. In 1879, Charles F. Hendryx purchased The Sauk Centre Herald from Joseph H. Simonton, who founded the paper in 1867. The following year, Hendryx acquired another local area paper, the Melrose Record, and merged the two to form The Sauk Centre Herald and Melrose Record. With its April 29, 1886 issue, the paper reverted to the name Sauk Centre Herald.
Published weekly on Thursdays, The Sauk Centre Herald was a four-page, eight-column newspaper from 1886 to 1894, when it changed format to five columns and eight pages, eventually adding a sixth column per page in 1898. This remained the paper’s configuration until the late 1920s, when it increased in size to 12 pages and seven columns. The paper’s circulation in 1886 was 900; by 1925, that number had increased to 2,750. As of 2021, The Sauk Centre Herald is still in publication.
By the time he became the editor and publisher of The Sauk Centre Herald, Charles F. Hendryx was already a seasoned newspaper veteran, having worked for many years in Cooperstown, New York, at The Otsego Republican, where his father, James I. Hendryx, was the publisher. Charles had also held numerous editorial positions at The Minneapolis Tribune. Among the paper’s staff during Hendryx’s tenure was a teenaged Sinclair Lewis, a Sauk Centre native who later…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Sauk Centre, 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