Dallas Morning News. Rockdale, Milam Co., Tex., June 19. -- The first issue of the Rockdale Daily Banner made its appearance yesterday. It is a five column folio evening paper, devoted mainly to local news. It met with a warm reception by the business men. Daily Morning News, June 21, 1895

"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . .
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1895 :: Rockdale Daily Banner
Dallas Morning News. Rockdale, Milam Co., Tex., June 19. -- The first issue of the Rockdale Daily Banner made its appearance yesterday. It is a five column folio evening paper, devoted mainly to local news. It met with a warm reception by the business men. Daily Morning News, June 21, 1895
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