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www.cvilleok.com Copyright
2004
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"The
Collinsville News"
First Published May 11, 1899
May
11, 2004
105th Birthday
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Museum In Collinsville and the other advertisers appearing on these pages.
If you would like to provide content or advertisements ... call Ted Wright
(918) 371-1901 or send email to wrightted@aol.com.
William
Lincoln (W.L.) Wright moved his newspaper & family to Collinsville, I.T.
from Ellsworth, Kansas, in 1899. The Wright family owned and operated the News
for 88 years. Mr. Bill Retherford has owned the News since 1987. The News will
begin its 106th year (Vol. 106) and is Collinsville's oldest business and Tulsa
County's oldest newspaper (the "Tulsa World" is on Vol. 99 for example).
The
following article from the 11th birthday of the News (in 1910) contains W.L.
Wright's (or his son F.A's?) recollections of the early years in Collinsville.
-- Ted Wright (W.L.'s great-grandson).
Link
to:
Newspaper Museum
In Collinsville
(Tours by appointment)
The museum opened on the 100th anniversary of the News on May 11, 1999. |
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| The 2nd home of "The
Collinsville News" (from 1900 - 1911) at the present townsite. Left-Right:
W. L. Wright with his son Claude (C.H.) and daughter Nellie. |
Note:
Ted Wright is the owner of the "Newspaper Museum In Collinsville"
and the "www.cvilleok.com" website. Although I am proud of my past
heritage with the newspaper, I am not associated with the current newspaper.
If you want your news or ad on my website please contact me. If you wants your
news or ad on both media please contact both, as there is not an exchange between
these two separate businesses.
