Päivälehti

The paper was founded in 1889[1] as the organ of the Young Finnish Party and was published six days a week.

[1] The founder of the paper was the Finnish journalist and later politician Eero Erkko who also served as its editor-in-chief.

[1] Political censorship by the Russian authorities, prompted by the paper's strong advocacy of greater Finnish freedoms and even outright independence, forced Päivälehti to often temporarily suspend publication.

[2] In June 1904, a week after Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov was assassinated by Eugen Schauman, Päivälehti published an editorial about how at the time of mid-summer, the light wins against the darkness after all.

[1] In its place, the owners founded the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, only four days after the last issue of Päivälehti.