Cushing was barely a town when somebody decided it needed a newspaper.
I think that says something about newspapers. And I think it says something about Cushing. The town was incorporated in 1894. By 1895, the Cushing Herald was already coming off the press.
There weren’t paved streets. There weren’t automobiles parked along Broadway.
Oklahoma wasn’t even a state yet. But Cushing had a newspaper. The…
