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R         Joplin Globe.

621                  Magazine editions, 1928-1929.

                                    Two volumes.

 

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These are annual “magazines” of the Joplin Globe newspaper featuring stories on mining and related industries in the Tri-State Mining District of Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.  In­cluded are production summaries for leading mining companies and articles on mineral indus­tries in the Tri-State and the United States.  The magazines are illustrated and carry advertise­ments by lead and zinc mining and milling companies.

 

The Joplin Globe is still the leading newspaper of Jasper County, Missouri.  During the hey­day of the mining period in the Tri-State Mining District, the Globe was the most informative local source for the prices of lead and zinc ore, innovations in mining and milling, and trends in the min­eral industries.  At the beginning of each year, the newspaper published a comprehensive summary of the previous year’s activity in the Tri-State.  In these annual editions, the Globe fea­tured articles on the city of Joplin, local businesses, schools and other civic matters, workmen’s compensation and other topics of interest to miners, the future of mining in the Tri-State District, and general mining trends in the United States.  Each issue included lists of the leading produc­ers in the dis­trict, summaries of annual lead and zinc production for Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, and comparative summaries of previous annual outputs.  Each edition also carries an al­phabetical di­rectory of mining firms in the district, along with illustrated advertisements for many of the firms and allied enterprises in Joplin, Missouri, Baxter Springs and Treece, Kansas, and Cardin, Miami, and Picher, Oklahoma.

 

Both issues were printed on newsprint and have been bound in library bindings.

 

 

 

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