Warren Sheaf (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-Current
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1,683 issues from 1880 to 1922, published in Warren, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Warren Sheaf has been a longstanding publication in northeastern Minnesota since 1880. The Sheaf was first published on December 1, 1880, as a weekly in Warren, the seat of Marshall County. The Sheaf originally consisted of four pages, the first and last being original content, and the middle two being ready print, or patent print, according to Lloyd George Melgard ‘s Warren, Plains to Plenty. The following statement by A. Dewey, publisher and editor, sums up the original intent of the paper:
‘The Sheaf shall be a paper of the people, and it will labor for what it considers the best interests of the county. It will be sent to many persons seeking homes in this valley, and, if by directing immigration this way, it gives to the county an added impetus in the settlement, it will have accomplished part of its mission. We shall aim to go on in the right and look not to the right or left, hoping that our purpose of doing our best for the whole with malice toward none, will bear us through, obtaining the good will and general support of the county, in this our little experiment.’
Despite Dewey’s intention to remain politically neutral, the Sheaf would later adopt a Republican Party position under the direction of Editor John P. Mattson (1890-1932), who believed firmly in tariff reform.
The Sheaf served the town of Warren, which was first settled in 1879 and which developed around the railroad lines and the rich agricultural lands of the Red River Valley. The region became…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Warren, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress