The Jefferson "Jimplecute"
Jefferson, Marion County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Initials of words "Join Industry, Manufacturing, Planting, Labor, Energy, Capital (in) Unity Together Everlasting" headed 1848 paper of E.C. Beazley. Ward Taylor (1832-1894) founded present "Jimplecute," published 1865-1926 by his family. Later owners: Mrs. H. P. Winsborough, Tom Foster, Arthur M. Bower, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Dwaine Dennis. (1973)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
The Jefferson "Jimplecute" carries one of the oddest names in American journalism, drawn from an 1848 motto celebrating the union of industry, planting, labor, energy and capital. Founded in 1865 by Ward Taylor, the paper was published by his family into the 1920s before passing through a string of later owners. It chronicled the East Texas river port of Jefferson across its boom and decline.
Why it matters
Local newspapers were the connective tissue of nineteenth-century American towns, and a long-lived sheet like the Jimplecute preserved the daily life of a community through decades of change.
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