Auttaja (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,531 issues from 1906 to 1963, published in Ironwood, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
Auttaja (The Helper) was a weekly Finnish language newspaper published in Ironwood, Michigan. Its first publisher, Pietari Vuori (also spelled Wuori) purchased an existing Ironwood paper, Vapaa Sana (Free Word) and in January 1906 began to publish it under the name Auttaja. Vuori was a Christian minister who intended the paper to serve both as a source of spiritual advice and community news. He quickly donated the paper to the National Evangelical Lutheran Church (also known as the Finnish National Church), which was composed primarily of Finns and was particularly popular in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In 1909, the Church purchased the printing plant where the paper was published, renaming it the Finnish Printing Company.
In 1915, the paper joined with many other ethnic newspapers that published a joint call for Americans to adopt a policy of strict neutrality toward all the combatants in World War I, refusing to “manufacture, sell or ship powder, shrapnel or shot of any kind or description to any of the warring nations of Europe, or Japan.” This article would later be included in hearings held in 1919 before a United States Senate subcommittee investigating “German and Bolshevik Propaganda.”
In 1943, Dr. Jalo Elias Nopola, a leader within the church, became the paper’s editor, a position he would hold until the paper ceased publication in Ironwood. In 1964, the Finnish National Church merged with the Missouri Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. In early 1965 the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ironwood, Michigan, United States
- Language
- Finnish
- 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