Missouri Pacific Lines Magazine - Edited by Edward Harlan McReynolds

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Missouri Pacific Lines Magazine
Edited by Edward H. McReynolds,
Special Assistant to the President

Edward Harlan "E.H." McReynolds (1890-1937) was an early Missouri newspaperman who rose to become a prominent public relations and advertising executive with the Missouri Pacific Lines railroad in St. Louis in the 1920s and '30s. During his years with the Missouri Pacific, from 1923 to 1937, he served as editor of the Missouri Pacific Lines Magazine, chronicling the people, places and events of the growing company. His name graced the masthead of each and every issue.

The magazine was a substantial production of work, sometimes totaling as many as 88 pages. It carried articles about the company's financial performance, operations and personnel as well as reports from its individual sections, from St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha to Memphis and Houston, and many smaller towns in between. Included also were pieces on charitable organizations such as the Boy Scouts and apple blossom festival organized by the Missouri River Apple Growers. In addition, unlike corporate magazines of today, it carried advertising targeting the MOPAC's thousands of employees. The June 1929 edition, for example, contained advertisements from Illinois Watch, Chrysler Motors, Edgeworth Tobacco and International Correspondence Schools.

This page provides a summary of the editions of the magazine preserved today in the Minerd-Minard-Miner-Minor Archives.


March 1926	August 1927	June 1928


June 1929	Nov. 1931	May 1934


Aug.-Sept. 1934	Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935	Oct.-Nov. 1935


Oct.-Nov. 1936	Dec. 1936-Jan. 1937	Feb.-March 1937


June-July 1937