Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races, the obituary in the first edition is apt to be brief. And so it fell out in the death of Thomas Mott Osborne, famed warden of Sing Sing, whose demise the Boston Herald covered last week. The notice- a two-inch filler on the front page -was headlined simply...
Readers of the Boston Herald were puzzled at first to know what to make of the subhead but, schooled by long practice to deal with such typographical vagaries, they quickly saw that the line of small type belonged under a headline farther down the page...
...bass and the Indian dances? Anyone but a fool could see that bass and Indian dances had nothing to do with the death of a famous man like Thomas Mott Osborne. Fortifying, with this reflection, their faith in the infallibility of their chosen newspaper, subscribers of the Boston Herald read...
...clipping, small as it was, gave many Bostonians something to talk about that morning. They were sorry that the Herald had not said more about such an interesting man. Some readers, indeed, claiming to have perused other accounts, described to their friends the scene at Mr. Osborne's deathbed, dealing in dramatic fashion with the pathetic figure of the aged warden, decrepit but courageous still, dying unattended. These glib ones might have been grateful if someone had warned them that even the Herald's two-inch notice (an Associated Press despatch) contained certain inaccuracies...
...alive. Next day the Boston Herald printed an editorial...