''Solungen'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

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county.

History

''Solungen'' was started in

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on 8 September 1904 by Evald Bosse (not to be confused with Ewald Bosse). As indicated by its name, it covered the district of

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and had the subtitle ''Organ for Solørdistrikterne''. It was an apolitical, or non-partisan, newspaper. When Bosse moved from Flisa in 1906, he wanted to sell it. His asking price was , but J. M. Enger and August Embretsen from the local labour movement bargained the price down to . The

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formally took over the newspaper on 1 January 1907. Embretsen became the first labour mayor of

in 1910. The newspaper faced problems in the local community, especially with lack of advertisements, but also when the landlord of their headquarters unilaterally stopped the tenancy in the summer of 1907. The newspaper was moved to

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. ''Solungen'' pretended to be an organ for the whole of

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county, as the Labour Party had no other newspaper here. The local party representatives and the national board had agreed to it by September 1907. Outside of Solør it was published as ''Hedemarkens Amts Socialdemokrat (Solungen)'' from August 1908. People elsewhere in the county grew unsatisfied with this, and started '' Demokraten'' in September 1909, which covered the northern parts of the country,

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, and

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. The newspaper's chief editors were Evald Bosse from 1904 to 1906, then

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from 1907 to April 1908,

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from April 1908 to April 1909,

Ivar Færder Ivar Marius Færder (19 July 1886 – 3 September 1968) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born at Færder in Åsnes as a son of farmers Helge Lundkvist and Karen Færder. He took basic e ...

from April 1909 to May 1910, Waldemar Carlsen from May 1910 to October 1913, Johs. Dahl from October 1913 to his death next month, then a committee until April 1914, then E. F. Lenning from April to July 1914 and finally Ole Ruud. ''Solungen'' survived the local conservative newspaper, '' Solørposten'' which went defunct in June 1913. ''Solungen'' itself went defunct after its last issue on 31 December 1914. It was merged into ''

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'' from 1915. Many years later a new newspaper tried to launch itself as ''Avisen Solungen'', but was persuaded (through a

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) to use '' SolungAvisa'' for trademark reasons as the newspaper '' Glåmdalen'', a successor of ''Glommendalens Social-Demokrat'', as late as 29 February 2008 had applied to the

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