Mount Pleasant Tribune

Mount Pleasant Tribune (formerly Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune) is a newspaper based in Mount Pleasant, Texas, United States. The paper comes out every Wednesday and Saturday.

Mount Pleasant Tribune
Typenewspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Moser Media
PublisherMount Pleasant Tribune]
Founded1941[1][2]
Headquarters210 S. Van Buren Ave.
Mount Pleasant, TX 75456
United States

History

The paper traces its roots back to a paper called The Patron, published in 1872 by W. J. Johnson. The paper changed named many times; it was called The Times Review in 1883 and consolidated with The Daily Hustler in 1924, to form The Daily Times.

C. E. Palmer and his associates with The Texarkana Gazette started a daily paper in 1939 called the Mount Pleasant Daily News. In 1940, the name was changed to the Titus County Tribune, and became a weekly publication.

J. Frank Palmer and his two sons purchased the Titus County Tribune in 1941, and in 1972 purchased The Daily Times, merging the papers into the Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune. In 1960, the Daily Times broke with 41 years of tradition to endorse a Republican, Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, John F. Kennedy.[3]

In 2014, Granite Publications bought the newspaper from Bob Palmer. The Daily Tribune was one of only thirteen family-owned and operated newspapers in Texas as of 2012.[4]

References
  1. "Mt. Pleasant Tribune". Manta. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
  2. "MT Pleasant Tribune". Cortera, Inc. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
  3. "Mount Pleasant Paper for Nixon". Waco News-Tribune. Associated Press. October 13, 1960.
  4. "The Daily Tribune". The Daily Tribune. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
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