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NW Oklahoma Newspapers Past & Presentby - LK Wagner - 19 August 1997, Tuesday There have been several Newspaper that have come and gone in NW Oklahoma to either publish public notices or to merely inform and entertain their readers. According to information taken from "The Birth of Freedom" by John Cable, R. I. (Ren) DeGreer was appointed US Commissioner in 1906 for the Old Freedom Country Area. It was DeGreer's job to publish filings on homesteads, filed contests, make changes of entry, prove up homesteads, and other jobs. Mr. DeGreer would then give final published proofs in the newspaper nearest the lands being homesteaded. DeGreer was also appointed as a Notary in the area around Freedom, Oklahoma. At that time the Freedom Country was located in Woodward County with Woodward as the county seat. People had to ford the Cimarron and Canadian Rivers just to file records in the county seat. The Old Freedom Express --
DeGreer made arrangements to buy a newspaper from Caleb Bales of Avard with the understanding that the Bales family would assist with the first issues to be printed on April 19, 1906. Unlike the Old Freedom Express that was used to publish public notices of government land transactions, another newspaper in Haskew located south of the Cimarron River may have been printed to merely inform the citizens of other things in the news in the area. Newspapers of the Present --This listing below is just a sampling
of some of the newspapers that are operating around the NW Oklahoma
area today:
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