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Okmulgee Daily Times
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Okmulgee, OK, home of the Okmulgee Daily Times, is a most uncommon place. Okmulgee serves as the seat of the Muscogee Creek Nation, the home of Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee - one of the world's premier schools of higher technology - and some of the oil-boom era's finest historically preserved buildings and homes.
The Okmulgee Daily Times has the distinction of being the first newspaper purchased in what became the Donrey Media Group. Donald W. Reynolds purchased the Okmulgee Daily Times from private owners on March 1,1940. It was acquired by the Jack Stephens Group and later sold to
The Okmulgee Daily Times began as a weekly newspaper known as the Creek Chieftain, established in 1901. Later the newspaper was renamed the Okmulgee Chieftain. It began publishing on Tuesdays and Fridays as the Okmulgee Daily Times, and used some of the first power presses in the West. A merger of the Times and an Okmulgee political newspaper called the Times Democrat gave birth to the Okmulgee Daily Times.
