{"id":3805,"date":"2011-02-25T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/theindustrioushistorian\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2022-11-30T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:02:43","slug":"thurber-tiny-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/the-industrious-historian\/2011\/02\/25\/thurber-tiny-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurber Tiny Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a coal mining company established a town, it often built a church, a school, a saloon, and a general mercantile. In some cases miners, company employees, and their families could purchase goods only at that location. In Thurber the store began as a small commissary that dealt mainly in perishable items, dry goods, and tools under management of the financially strapped Johnson Coal Mining Company in 1887.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texas and Pacific Coal Company (T&P) acquired the land in and around Thurber in 1888 and reopened the store under the management of their newly established subsidiary, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company (TPM&M). Eventually the store developed into a large-scale retail complex that boasted a Hardware Department, a Print Shop, a Drug Store, a Grocery Store, a Meat Market, a Dry Goods Department, and a Casket Sales Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to advertise competitive pricing and establish a loyal customer base who would shop locally, the TPM&M published The Thurber Tiny Journal<\/em>. It was a small-scale newspaper that contained small tidbits of local news and sporting events, a humor section, and store promotions. The two examples of the Thurber Tiny Journal below are from 1927.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Below, read a full edition of The Thurber Tiny Journal<\/em> from 1930. Please note the timely economic references:<\/p>\n\n\n

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