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...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...
April 20, 8 A.M.--Rx$&!*@$ (This reviewer's reaction on reading printer's error which appeared in place of his usual column...
...when Asahel Bush ("Asahel I"), a young (26) Massachusetts attorney and printer, had clapped a printing press into the hold of a Yankee clipper for the 15,000-mile voyage round the Horn, lit out himself by packet boat for the rich, raw, pioneer Oregon Territory. He founded the Oregon Statesman at Oregon City, later moved to Salem when it was made the Territorial capital, became State printer, by 1862 was rich enough to retire from the publishing business...
...August 1703, "by the most gracious privilege of His Imperial Roman Majesty," a Viennese printer, one Johann Baptist Schönwetter (John Baptist Lovelyweather), started a court paper called Diarium. Vienna was capital of the Holy Roman Empire; Leopold I was Emperor. Said Printer Schönwetter of his paper: "It contains everything notable which occurs from day to day in this town of Vienna, as well as in other places all over the world...
...scurrilous was American Progress that no printer in Louisiana dared to touch it. Huey had it printed in Mississippi. He forced all State workers (including New Orleans' State-paid firemen and police) to buy subscriptions in job lots. Merchants who wanted to do business with Louisiana's government found it worth their while to advertise in Huey's paper...