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Aurora(newspaper)

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Aurora,until December 1927 known asYstads-Bladet Aurora,was a dailySocial Democraticnewspaper published fromYstadin southernSweden.As of 1957, the newspaper had a daily circulation of around 4,730.[1][2]

Editors of the newspaper included J. Pihlman, Elias Nilsson, Ludvig Törnqvist and Henry Hallgren.[1]

The first issue ofAurorawas published on August 5, 1899. Then it was a weekly paper, published on Saturdays. It labelled itself as a 'left-leaning' newspaper. 1900-1902 it was published twice a week, 1902-1907 thrice a week. From October 1907 onwards it was published six times per week.[1]

In 1910 the newspaper was titled as 'radical' and in 1933 as 'Social Democratic, pro-Temperanceand religious'. Other the political label was simply 'Social Democratic'.[1]

The last issue of the paper was published on December 31, 1957. In 1984, the Ystadarbetarkommun('Labour Commune', i.e. Social Democratic municipal unit) began publishing a quarterly newsletter with the same name.[3]

References

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  1. ^abcd"Nya Lundstedt - dagstidningar / Kungl. Biblioteket".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-25.Retrieved2009-07-01.
  2. ^Braunthal, Julius (ed).Yearbook of the International Socialist Labour Movement.Vol. I. London: Lincolns-Prager International Yearbook Pub. Co, 1957. p. 435
  3. ^"Ystads media förr och nu".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-20.Retrieved2009-07-01.