Uusi Kotimaa
The front page of Uusi Kotimaa printed on July 7, 1922. The banner headline reports the election of Lynn Frazier (a Republican from North Dakota and the state’s former governor) to the US Senate. From the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub.
Bibliography
Alanen, Arnold Robert. Finns in Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012.
American Newspaper Annual and Directory, part 1. N. W. Ayer & Sons, 1917.
American Newspaper Directory. George P. Rowell and Company, 1897.
Hoerder, Dirk, ed. The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s–1970s, vol. 1. Greenwood Press, 1987.
Riippa, Timo. "The Finns and Swede-Finns." In They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups, edited by June Drenning Holmquist, 296–322. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2004.
Kostliainen, Auvo. Finns in the United States: History of Settlement, Dissent and Integration. Michigan State University Press, 2014.
——— . “Finns.” In The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography, vol. 1, edited by Dirk Hoerder with Christiane Harzig. Greenwood, 1987.
Mason, John W., ed. History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Dalcassian Publishing, 1916.
Wasastjerna, Hans R. The History of the Finns in Minnesota. Minnesota Finnish American Historical Society, 1957.
https://archive.org/details/historyoffinnsin00wasa/page/n7/mode/2up
Chronology
1880–1882
August Nylund founds Uusi Kotimaa in Minneapolis.
1884
Nylund moves the newspaper to New York Mills, Minnesota.
1888
Nylund moves the newspaper from New York Mills to Astoria, Oregon.
1889
Nylund moves the paper back to New York Mills.
1889
New York Mills and surrounding areas in Otter Tail County have a combined Finnish population of 4,000.
1896
Uusi Kotimaa has 4,120 subscribers.
1892
August Nylund dies on December 12. His sons, Felix and August Jr., continue publishing the newspaper.
1916
Uusi Kotimaa has 9,000 subscribers.
1919
Felix Nylund sells Uusi Kotimaa to the People’s Voice Cooperative Publishing Company. The paper’s editorial stance moves to the left.
1921
Editor J. W. (Johan Wilhelm) Lähde resigns.
1923
Finnish Community Party members buy Uusi Kotimaa. K. E. Heikkinen becomes its editor and gives the paper an explicitly communist orientation.
1931
Uusi Kotimaa moves to Superior, Wisconsin, where it is published by Työmies Kustannusyhtiö (Työmies Publishing Company).
1934
Uusi Kotimaa ceases publication.
Bibliography
Alanen, Arnold Robert. Finns in Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012.
American Newspaper Annual and Directory, part 1. N. W. Ayer & Sons, 1917.
American Newspaper Directory. George P. Rowell and Company, 1897.
Hoerder, Dirk, ed. The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s–1970s, vol. 1. Greenwood Press, 1987.
Riippa, Timo. "The Finns and Swede-Finns." In They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups, edited by June Drenning Holmquist, 296–322. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2004.
Kostliainen, Auvo. Finns in the United States: History of Settlement, Dissent and Integration. Michigan State University Press, 2014.
——— . “Finns.” In The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography, vol. 1, edited by Dirk Hoerder with Christiane Harzig. Greenwood, 1987.
Mason, John W., ed. History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Dalcassian Publishing, 1916.
Wasastjerna, Hans R. The History of the Finns in Minnesota. Minnesota Finnish American Historical Society, 1957.
https://archive.org/details/historyoffinnsin00wasa/page/n7/mode/2up