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...year the Grand Old Party nominated James Gillespie Blaine for the Presidency (1884), a young printer by the name of T. B. Dowden turned up in the shop of the Cincinnati Gazette looking for work. The Gazette took him on and one morning at 2:30 o'clock, just before the Gazette went to press, Printer Dowden took from the news hook a piece of copy marked: "Must go in ten lines." Setting ten lines solid, he frantically tinkered the spacing, then appealed to the foreman: "My copy ends with Grand Old Party and I have two words left...
Almost everyone knows the early life of the man. How he went to Philadelphia to work as a printer. How he dropped into a bakery one night and bought great sticks of French bread. How his future wife laughed at him loafing up the street. This is all old stuff. His political and diplomatic career is also well enough known in the casual way. Everyone knows, that he foresaw the United States at Albany. There are countless stories of his graceful mots when he bowed low in the court of France. School boys are raised on the story...
...back cover of the current issue was drawn a burlesque advertisement of "The Ham What Am!", with a large photograph of Crooner Rudy Vallee. When Editor Anthony read that Vallee's mother was dying, he raced to the printer, had the face deleted from the picture, intending to let the whole page pass as pointless. To his distress, he found the result still easily recognizable as Vallee...
Since prizefighting has been enjoying a private and acute depression of its own, strenuous means of ballyhoo were required for the meeting of World's Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, German printer, and William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling of Georgia. Stribling, an able if eccentric aviator, borrowed a plane from Cleveland airport and flew it 90 miles from his training camp at Geauga Lake Park, Ohio to Schmeling's training camp at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Here he flew low, shouted: "Yeah, Maxie!" and flew away again. Other exciting training camp incidents were few. Reporters assigned...
...Schiff, the remaining two-fifths in trust to the two children. Upon the death of Mrs. Schiff two-thirds of her share goes to John Mortimer Schiff provided he has not married without her permission. One-third goes to Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall. Died-William Edwin Rudge, 54, famed printer; in Mt. Vernon...