The St. Paul Daily News is not launched as an experiment: it is here to stay. It will follow a well defined plan—independent but not neutral; bond to no party, tied with no corporation strings, yet with the best of feeling toward all members of each party and a boo for the erring officeholder, whatever his creed. Without bias, with no friends to favor, no enemies to punish—a clean record to make and the best obtainable talent gathered together to make it. The St. Paul Daily News is launched upon the journalistic seas to fill a field not already occupied.
Lawrence V. Ashbaugh
Editor, St. Paul Daily News
March 1st, 1900
FIRST (and still the only) paper to print news in crisp, concise, condensed style for busy readers.
FIRST (and still the only) paper to print the TRUTH, whether WE happen to like it or not!
FIRST (and still the only) paper to realize that news isn’t just fires and murders and scandals, but rather the real, the odd, the unusual, the progressive, the happy, the noble things that men and women and children are doing.
FIRST to print a noon edition, and a late afternoon edition—the justly celebrated PINK.
FIRST to open its columns freely to letters of criticism and comment from its readers.
FIRST (and still the only) paper independent alike of political parties, class prejudice and public service corporations.
St. Paul Daily News Advertisement-1920
Strike while the iron is Hot! Truth will prevail! All St. Paul is deeply agitated and vitally concerned over the proposed merger of the Daily News and the Dispatch-PioneerPress—the threatened NEWS MONOPOLY—that will make St. Paul a ‘one paper’ town and deprive 1,000 people of an honest livelihood. It will undermine the efforts of the thousands of sincere men and women who have this week so valiantly worked to build up confidence through the NRA. The newspaper merger can be halted if the public continues to voice its opposition to it.The Daily News employees beseech you to continue to telephone your protest against this NEWS MONOPOLY by calling CEdar 5000 (Dispatch-Pioneer Press) and GArfield 2864 (the St. Paul NRA headquarters). Hear the TRUTH at 8:00 p.m. Saturday over station WRHM
-from a flyer circulated with the Saturday, September 2, 1933, issue of the St. Paul Daily News
A Statement to the Citizens of St. Paul
Daily News is under contract to be purchased by the Dispatch-Pioneer Press company. When the sale is completed the Daily News will be operated by its present staff, as a separate institution under independent editorial direction. This sale was necessary because of the financial position of the News as a consequence of the Depression. The majority of the common stockholders of the Daily News came to the conclusion that the only solution possible lay in the purchase of the Daily News by the Dispatch-Pioneer Press Co. For this reason the Dispatch-Pioneer Press Co. agreed to buy and has decided to operate the Daily News.
-Front Page of the Daily News, September 3, 1933