Sugarland Industries published a newspaper in the 1920s. It was the Texas Commercial News, and it offered W.T. Eldridge the chance to tout Sugar Land and lure new business interests to the town. The masthead includes the phrase, local section. If the paper included other sections, T.C. didn't have them.
T.C. Rozelle saved three copies. I've posted one here. Notice the article on the gasoline-engine rail cars Eldridge bought. It says Eldridge 'leased trackage rights into Houston.' I wonder if this is the beginning of the 'Dinky.'
This edition of the Texas Commercial News includes Campus Chatter, which was the school's weekly newspaper. They published the school paper separately later on. T.C. has a dozen of them from late 1928 to early 1929. They are fascinating. I will post them over the next few months.
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