One of my family members was a newspaper editor and I have LOTS of newspaper articles to sift through and transcribe, but Ill add them as soon as I do.
Sunday Gazetteer-Sunday, January 31, 1897
Editor B. C. Murray is the happiest man in the city today, though the wind is cantering through his whiskers at the rate of forty miles an hour and at the point in the mercury that is below freezing. What's all that to a newspaper man who is the grandfather of an eleven-pound boy. The little fellow arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Troy McMillin this morning at 12:30. Mother and child are both doing nicely, but Mr. Murray may have to see a Specialist.--Daily Herald
1930- Old Denison Paper Passes INTO History As Birthday of Denison Now Observed
Denison's birthday anniversary today passed unnoticed except by a few "old timers" who look back to the early days and recall many moments of pleasure and some "heartaches" in the building of a city. Passing into history today is the Denison News, established in 1872 by B. C. Murray, deceased, a well known citizen of Denison and the South and a builder with a wide reputation of doing things. The Denison News was established in 1872 and operated as such for a number of years by Mr. Murray. In 1882 the Denison Gazetteer was established as a Sunday weekly paper by Mr. Murray. Sale of the plant to L. E. Haskett and J. A. Holburn recently for removal to Childress, Texas, by J. E. Wall, owner since 1915, has recalled to the memory of early settlers in Denison that the Denison News not only published a real newsy paper, but the plant did show printing for circuses, picnics, and fairs in a wide territory. Possibly the only equipment sold by Mr. Wall with the later model machinery and typesetting machine, to be moved to West Texas, was the supply of large wood type formerly used in printing the poster for circuses and similar advertising matter.
"Early Day Morgue"
In the "morgue" of the newspaper plant were many "cuts" made of wood, that were of buildings and prominent citizens of the early days. Theaters or opera houses as they were called, civic centers, churches, parks, etc., were among the cuts stored in the morgue. The building, to be finally vacated Oct. 1 as a newspaper office and printing shop, has been occupied as such for many years. In the building have been employed cub reporters, printer's "devils," many of whom are now serving as newspaper editor and printers in large establishments, and some have passed on. Left as a monument to the early newspaper days of Denison is a water power plant set in front of the building. This plant formerly was used by water power to propel the presses which operated the daily and weekly newspapers. Before the water power machine the presses operated by mule power by means of a treading machine. The Sunday Gazetteer was sold by Mr. Murray to Taylor and Wall in 1913 and its name changed to the Sunday Gazette, and a morning newspaper was published until 1915, when Mr. Wall became sole owner and turned the plant into a weekly paper publication and job printing office. Later the weekly was suspended and Mr. Wall has operated a job printing plant until he disposed of the machinery to take new owners. Mr. Wall will "take a rest" before entering business again, he says.
SOURCE: original newspaper articles
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