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was pro-labor, and that when it moved to Duluth it became simply an ordinary bourgeois paper.

Koti-Home: At about the time when the Päivälehti moved to Duluth, many Finnish-Americans held that the greatest deficiency in the Finnish-language press in America was the lack of a magazine which could have treated certain subjects with greater depth than the daily press. To meet this need, there was established in Duluth in 1922 a monthly illustrated magazine, Koti-Home. In its statement of policy in the first number it was said that "we will defend all good endeavors of the FinnishAmericans. We do not desire particularly to present any new or independent proposals or in any way to scorn previously made plans or work in progress. Naturally we will not make special pleas for any specific faction, sect or creed. We will give our impartial support to all. This magazine will be bilingual, since with neither one language alone will we be able to reach both parents and their children. If Koti were to appear in Finnish, our children would not read it; if it were to appear in English, the older people would not care for it."

Under the Koti-Home title was a sub-title, "Educational Monthly," and it had a motto stating, "Education produces good homes; good homes build a great nation." Annual subscription cost $3.00; single copies, 30c. The size of the issue was usually 64 pages. It was published by a firm named the American Home Publishing Company, whose president was Dr. E. I. Lindgren; secretary, C. J. Tolonen; treasurer, Victor H. Gran. Combined business manager and editor was Jussi Hinkkanen. It took the company two years to come to the realization that there was not much possibility for success for a bilingual magazine such as this; it was moved to Hancock, Michigan, where it very shortly expired.

Siirtokansan Kalenteri: In the previous discussion of the MFAHS, the Siirtokansan Kalenteri already received mention. The first issue of this annual appeared in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, at the presses of the New Yorkin Uutiset, with Eetu Aaltio as editor. Moved to Duluth, the annual was produced and printed several years as an undertaking of the United States and Canada Newspapermen's League, with the Päivälehti's editors serving as the editors for the annual as well. Then the Päivälehti took over its publication altogether, and it was edited until 1940 by Carl H. Salminen. At that time Lauri Lemberg became its editor, and when the Päivälehti died in 1948 the Siirtokansan Kalenteri

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