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"In presenting to an enterprising and intelligent public, for its consideration and support, the first number of the MINNEAPOLIS DAILY TRIBUNE, a few words of introduction may be neither ill-timed nor out of place."


Those were among the first words printed in what's now the Star Tribune. The newspaper's first issue printed today in 1867. 


In celebration of the Strib's 150th birthday, we pulled some excerpts from its 

Any respectable newspaper today wouldn't be caught dead advocating for a political party on its news pages. But consider when the Daily Tribune got its start: about two years after the Civil War ended.

Not only was it more common for papers to engage in advocacy work at that time, but the Republicans were the anti-slavery party back then. So, 

 being pro-Republican at the time would've been the wrong call. 


The old Strib really loved Minnesota. How could it not?

Mussolini, gun-girl brides and the bed of the future


Apparently, telling time was an issue in 1867. Thank goodness for newspaper explainers.

Let's hope public-service journalism never dies.

The early Tribune journalists must have been pious, issuing a lengthy explanation for why there won't be an early Monday paper. 

The Star Tribune isn't the only Minnesota news company celebrating a big birthday in 2017 — Minnesota Public Radio happens to be 

Transcription by MPR News' Jim Bickal and Eric Ringham.

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On this day 150 years ago, the Minneapolis Daily Tribune published issue No. 1. Newspapers have changed a little bit in the meantime.

A century-and-a-half ago today, the first issue of the Minneapolis Daily Tribune was published. That paper would eventually become what we now know as the Star Tribune. It was a time when dozens of newspapers were starting up. Most did not last very long. The Daily Tribune began publishing in 1867, the same year that Minneapolis was incorporated as a city. In that first edition, the paper printed a lengthy description of what it hoped to accomplish. Here is part of that mission statement read by MPR's Eric Ringham.

Happy birthday, Star Tribune

Page one of the first edition of the Minneapolis News Tribune

Happy birthday, Star Tribune

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