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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Publisher | Dave Hickey |
Editor | Dave Hickey |
Founded | 1884 (as Dawson Eagle) |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 674 Chestnut Street, Dawson, MN 56232 |
City | Dawson, Minnesota |
Country | USA |
Circulation | 1,550 |
OCLC number | 20389360 |
The Dawson Sentinel is an English-language newspaper operating in Dawson, Minnesota. [1] It was founded in December 1884 and is published weekly on Wednesdays. [2] [3]
The Dawson Sentinel published its first issue on December 5, 1884, under the name the Dawson Eagle. [4] In 1886, the Dawson Eagle changed its name to The Sentinel. [5] The name of the newspaper was finally changed to the Dawson Sentinel in 1898. [6] [1]
The first editor of the Dawson Sentinel was C. J. Coghlan. [7] Theodore Christianson, former Governor of Minnesota was the owner, editor, and publisher of the Dawson Sentinel from 1909 to 1925. [8] [9] During this time, Christianson wrote and published anti-German and anti-Bolshevik editorials. [10] The newspaper was co-owned by William Nicholas Kremer until his death in 2020. [11]
The Dawson Sentinel is available on microfilm at the Gale Family Library at the Minnesota History Center. [6] [2]