Today in History is celebrating 145 years of the Grand Forks Herald by revisiting the Tuesday, November 1, 1881 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a column from George B. Winship on the first day of publishing for the Daily Herald. The Daily Herald launched in Grand Forks, D.T. on Nov. 1, 1881, under Geo. B. Winship. The paper set goals to champion local interests, report world news, and detail local growth.
THE DAILY HERALD.
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GEO. B. WINSHIP.
GRAND FORKS, D. T., NOV. 1, '81.
SALUTATORY.
THE DAILY HERALD starts under favor-able auspices, and has received all the encouragement from the generous and public spirited citizens of Grand Forks that could be reasonably asked. The first issues are necessarily imperfect, but this will be remedied in a few days. In a week or two "ready prints" will be dispensed with, and the whole paper will be printed at home. The aim of the daily will be to push the interests of Grand Forks, city and county, to the front, first, last and all the time; to give a condensed telegraphic report of the world's news, and to publish in full all local news, especially the record of growth and improvement.
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