Minnesotské Noviny (St. Paul, Minn.) 1904-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
500 issues from 1904 to 1914, published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Minnesotské Noviny (“Minnesota News”) was a Czech-language newspaper published in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1904 until 1914. At the time of its publication, Minnesotské Noviny was considered to be a newspaper for Bohemian Americans. It was only after World War I that Czechoslovakia was designated as an independent state. Minnesotské Noviny appeared weekly as a Minnesota-affiliated edition of Osvěta Americká (“American Enlightenment”), the latter published by the Národní Tiskárna (National Printing Company) in Omaha, Nebraska. The St. Paul-based editor of the Minnesotské Noviny was F. (Frank) B. Matlach, who was also a public notary and insurance and real estate agent. Matlach held English-language classes for Bohemian immigrants in his office in the evening hours. He later served as chief clerk to the Minnesota Insurance Commissioner and in 1924 was appointed as the Czechoslovak consular representative in Minnesota.
Czech immigrants settled throughout the Midwest with significant populations in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, as well as Minnesota. Immigration to Minnesota started in the 1850s, with the largest Bohemian settlements in southern Minnesota in McLeod County; in New Prague and surrounding towns such as Vesli in Scott and LeSeuer counties; around Hopkins in western Hennepin County; and in Fillmore and McLeod counties. By the early 1900s, there were Bohemian communities throughout the state, as well as in the larger cities. Much of St. Paul’s Czech…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- Czech
- 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