was a

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in Finland, which was then a

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under the

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of Russia. The paper was founded in 1889 as the organ of the

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and was published six days a week. The founding company of the paper was

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which also started its activities the same year. The founder of the paper was the Finnish journalist and later politician Eero Erkko who also served as its

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. Political

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by the Russian authorities, prompted by the paper's strong advocacy of greater Finnish freedoms and even outright independence, forced to often temporarily suspend publication. In June 1904, a week after

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Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov was

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by Eugen Schauman, published an editorial about how at the time of mid-summer, the light wins against the darkness after all. As a consequence of this, the paper was closed permanently the same year. In its place, the owners founded the newspaper , only four days after the last issue of .

References

External links

History of Päivälehti

The National Library of Finland: Digitised issues of ''Päivälehti''
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