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...played. There was no other service. Mr. O'Bannion is credited by the police with having directed 25 of Chicago's most distinguished murders- by his friends with innumerable secret charities, kindnesses. Said an old woman: "He put my boy on the right track." Said a newsboy: "He was a swell feller." Said Mayor Dever of Chicago: "The rule of the Gat is ended." Died. Edwin S. Montagu, 45, onetime Secretary of State for India; in London. He held his portfolio in the Lloyd George cabinet...
...boast is legitimate, as no other paper on Thursday, Oct. 16, more than approached The Times in solidity. The Chicago Daily News, however, with 48 pages was large enough to be a considerable burden to a newsboy; The Chicago Tribune had 36 with which to swell a business man's pocket; The New York World and The New York Herald-Tribune each provided 32 for the littering of breakfast tables, Pullmans or wherenot. Other papers whose bulk did not forbid their being folded by an active man in any conveniently clear space were The Kansas City Star with...
Adolph Ochs was born in Cincinnati in 1858, the son of a Bavarian Jew. He began his newspaper career as a newsboy. He advanced to printer's devil. He served on various Kentucky and Tennessee papers as a printer's apprentice, as an assistant foreman, as a subscription solicitor, as a reporter, as a job-printer, as an assistant business manager. He went to Chattanooga to help found the Daily Dispatch. It failed and was sold to the Chattanooga Times. That failed, and Ochs, with nothing at all, bought it. At that time he was just...
...Page 1, The Sun (Baltimore) ex claimed: "HORATIO ALGER IN 1924 - 'Tattered Toms' play but a minor part in the distribution of the Sun-papers. We have newsboys in Balti more -hustling kids with voices as loud as and with car-hopping agility equal to those of any other city. But . ". . carrier circulation is the back bone of the Sunpapers-delivery directly into the home, not by the glorified newsboy of fiction, but by exclusive carriers, supervised by members of the Sun Route Owners Association, responsible business men who can glorify themselves after working hours...
...Author. Born at Kiev, Russia, in 1881, John Cournos migrated with his parents to Philadelphia at the age of 10. He was successively factory-hand, newsboy, journalist, author: The Wall, The Mask, Babel. Living now in London, his recreations are: "Reading the Greeks and Elizabethans, watching the folly and wonder of life, playing with pebbles on the beach...