wasn’t the first local newspaper to serve this rural region of West Texas—but in 1926, when the first producing oil well was struck in the county, it was clever enough to ride the coattails of Joseph Pulitzer’s famous St. Louis daily, and also to hitch its wagon to the fortunes of a city that cereal built.Travel back to the past with us this coming year as we revisit the origins of...
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