SMITH COUNTY TX NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM Submitted by East Texas Genealogical Society P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** SMITH COUNTY TX NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM By James Wilkins Originally published in the East Texas Family Records, Volume 5, Issue 2, Summer 1981. One of the 1980 projects of the Jack T. Greer Memorial Fund Committee of the Smith County Historical Society was the cataloging and microfilming of back issues of the Troup Banner and Tyler Journal at the newspaper office in Troup. A total of 28 rolls of film contain all of the known copies of the two weekly papers published by the Edwards family. The original master copy was stored in a vault in Dallas and copies have been placed in Tyler Public Library, Texas State Archives, University of Texas at Austin Library, Times-Banner office, and at the Archives of the Smith County Historical Society, making 5 copies of this film available. Other activities of the Greer Fund Committee include the gift of a microfilm reader to the Tyler Public Library and the funding of a full- time professional archivist for two months on the Society's archives holdings. Below is a list showing dates of each microfilm roll. (Gaps appearing between dates is due to water damage, resulting in a loss of some of original newspapers.) Box Number Name of Newspaper Dates 1 Tyler Journal May 8, 1925 - Dec. 31, 1926 2 Tyler Journal Jan. 2, 1927 - Dec. 28, 1928 3 Tyler Journal Jan. 4, 1929 - Dec. 26, 1930 4 Tyler Journal Jan. 2, 1931 - Dec. 30, 1932 5 Tyler Journal Jan. 6, 1933 - Dec. 28, 1934 6 Tyler Journal Jan. 4, 1935 - Dec. 25, 1936 7 Tyler Journal Jan. 1, 1937 - Dec. 30, 1938 8 Troup Banner Sep. 4, 1930 - Dec. 22, 1905 9 Troup Banner Jan. 5, 1906 - Dec. 19, 1907 10 Troup Banner Jan. 2, 1908 - Dec. 23, 1909 11 Troup Banner Jan. 6, 1910 - Dec. 26, 1912 12 Troup Banner Jan. 2, 1913 - Dec. 30, 1915 13 Troup Banner Jan. 6, 1916 - Dec. 26, 1918 14 Troup Banner Jan. 2, 1919 - Dec. 27, 1921 15 Troup Banner Jan. 12, 1922 - Dec. 27, 1923 16 Troup Banner Jan. 3, 1924 - Dec. 27, 1925 17 Troup Banner Jan. 14, 1926 - Dec. 29, 1927 18 Troup Banner Jan. 5, 1928 - Dec. 26, 1929 19 Troup Banner Jan. 2, 1930 - Dec. 31, 1931 20 Troup Banner Jan. 7, 1932 - Dec. 28, 1933 21 Troup Banner Jan. 4, 1934 - Dec. 26, 1935 22 Troup Banner Jan. 2, 1936 - Dec. 29, 1938 23 Troup Banner Jan. 5, 1939 - Dec. 31, 1939 24 Troup Banner Jan. 6, 1955 - Dec. 29, 1955 25 Troup Banner Jan. 2, 1964 - Dec. 28, 1966 26 Troup Banner Jan. 5, 1967 - Dec. 31, 1970 27 Troup Banner Jan. 7, 1971 - Dec. 31, 1974 28 Troup Banner Jan. 9, 1975 - Dec. 22, 1977