''Mount Pleasant Tribune'' (formerly ''Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune'') is a
newspaper
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based in
Mount Pleasant, Texas
Mount Pleasant is the county seat of and largest city in Titus County, Texas, Titus County, in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, Mount Pleasant's population was 16,047; it is situated in Northeast Texas.
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, United States. The paper comes out every Wednesday and Saturday.
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
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,
Richard Nixon
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, over the
Democratic nominee,
John F. Kennedy
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.
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. Granite Publications ended the daily frequency taking the paper to semi-weekly in January, 2017, Wednesdays and Saturdays. In August of 2017 the Tribune was acquired by Northeast Texas Publishing, LP.
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External links
Newspaper's website
Newspapers published in Texas