In 1940, Seattle's second newspaper serving the Eastern European immigrant community, The American Slav, is published. The editor is William J. Miller, and the weekly's office is in downtown Seattle at 90 University Street. The paper has a brief existance and ceases publishing the following year.
The preceding Slavic newspaper published in Seattle was the Slobodna Tribuna, published from 1909 to 1917.
Sources:
Polk's Seattle City Directory, 1940 (R. L. Polk and Co., 1940), pp. 44, 2755.
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