Deutscher Herold (Sioux Falls, Süd-Dakota)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
564 issues from 1907 to 1918, published in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1890, Hermann Butikofer and Paul B. Meyer began publishing a German-language newspaper, the Süd Dakota Nachrichten (“South Dakota News”), in Mitchell, South Dakota. In 1896, the newspaper was moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The six-column, eight-page publication cost $1.50 per year and was solidly Democratic. In 1900, Butikofer sold the newspaper to Hans Demuth, who renamed it the Süd Dakota Nachrichten und Herold (“South Dakota News and Herald”). Demuth increased the columns to seven, raised the price per year to $2, kept the pages at eight, and switched the newspaper’s political stance from Democrat to Republican. In 1901, Demuth renamed the paper the Nachrichten – Herold (“News-Herald”) and dropped the price to $1.50 per year. He stated that the Herold was the “Leading German newspaper in the state.” In 1907, Demuth established the Herold Publishing Company and renamed the paper once again, with Friedrich W. Sallat and Edward Baumheier as editors. The new Deutscher Herold (“German Herald”) ran between eight and twelve pages, had seven columns, and cost $2 per year. The paper continued to back the Republican Party and claimed a circulation of 5,200. In addition to Demuth, Sallat, and Baumheier, the Deutscher Herold was edited over the years by John Schroeder, Walter Fisher, and Conrad Kornmann.
Throughout its many-named history, the Herold was always published on Thursdays. It consistently carried a large amount of news from Germany and other foreign countries, as…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- 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