Toledo (Toledo, Ohio)

• 1931–1956
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

1,216 issues from 1931 to 1956, published in Toledo, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.

This newspaper series was the project of its editor and publisher, a Hungarian American immigrant named Dr. Géza Farkas, and proudly heralded itself as “The Only Hungarian Newspaper in Toledo and Vicinity.” It further identified as the “Official Organ of the Hungarian Churches and Societies in Toledo, Ohio,” emphasizing its innate links to that community. Although these papers were published primarily in Hungarian, they did feature occasional English-language content as well. Almost all but the earliest issues were four pages long and were issued weekly until late 1954, at which point the paper became a biweekly publication. From 1960 onward, it was issued monthly.

Géza Farkas was born in 1878 and raised as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where as a young man he earned a doctorate of law. Per an interview Farkas did in a 1957 issue of the New York Fraternity, a Hungarian American fraternal newsletter, he came to America in 1904 for what was initially intended to be a short stay. He remained, however, and in 1908 moved from Cleveland to Toledo, where he gained American citizenship in 1911. Though the Toledo Hungarian-American Weekly (which shortened its title to Toledo in 1931) did not begin publishing until 1930, Farkas had already served as a civic leader and advisor to Toledo’s Hungarian American community for many years. He also reportedly maintained a close relationship with the editor-in-chief of the much more widely circulated Toledo Blade, Grove Patterson,…

Genres

News

Published in

Toledo, Ohio, United States

Language

Hungarian

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

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