This Week in Odessa History

A report first appearing in the Harrington Citizen and then carried in the Spokane Spokesman-review and the Seattle Times in July 1909 didn’t amuse R.S.Crowl, the editor of The Odessa Record.

In fact, he was furious about a story, which had it that all of the farm land southwest of Odessa was adrift in sand.

The Record fired back with this front-page article in its July 12 issue:

If a person were inclined to believe all of the stories gotten up by many unreliable corespondents, by this time he might really believe that the people of Odessa had come to the conclusion they were living in a verit...