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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...
...another instance a college president is alleged to have had a secret arrangement whereby galley proof of the college literary publication was submitted to him by the printer, without the knowledge of the staff...
...space taking up about one-third of the editorial column. These blanks were then painstakingly cut out by members of the staff and it was whispered that I had suppressed an offensive story and editorial. The paper "sold like wildfire" and its appearance was followed by visits to the printer in search of the missing portions, offers of high prices for "unexpurgated" copies--as much as ten dollars was offered--and sales almost doubled those of other years...
Plodding wearily past newspaper boys whose Advertisers already announced his victory, past a multitude whose cheers celebrated the extenuation of a legend, Clarence De Mar, the aged printer, chased by a number of Scandinavians, an up Exeter Street yesterday afternoon to better his previous records in the Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened...
...Orleans, Washington. He loved to drive a Broadway omnibus. He loved to listen to the stevedores on the Louisiana levees. He also loved a Creole. When she refused to make an honest man of him, he started Leaves of Grass. (He thought "Leaves" sounded better than "Blades"' but the printer didn't.) He wove the names of a string of box cars upon a broad broken page, "caught the rhythm and made it more rhythmical." He was to spend the rest of his life rewriting Leaves of Grass...