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...following editorial appeared, last week, in the Pittsburgh Courier, most famed Negro newspaper...
...difficulty in sending money from the U. S. to certain states in the interior of Europe. To insure safety, people who wanted to do so entrusted their currency to travelers rather than the mails. Jake Horowitz got the notion that it might be profitable to act as a paid courier for this purpose and set out, with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw. Paris, he knew, was no place...
Sole Democratic organ in a Vare-ridden city, the Philadelphia Record last week passed from the control of the Wanamaker family into the capable hands of Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...
Died. Herschell V. Jones, 66, onetime (at 12) printer's "devil" on the Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier, owner and publisher since 1908 of the Minneapolis Journal, a director of the Associated Press, accurate forecaster of wheat crops and famed collector of books, etchings, pictures; of heart disease; in Minneapolis...
...remote and ultima Thulish is Mongolia, the land which partially bounds China on the north, that last week the following delayed courier despatch loomed in the North China Herald as hot news...