Word: smalltowner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight solitude of his office, John Doctor, smalltown physician, spread his books out on the desk, began casting up his accounts. He owed his landlord $700 in back rent. His bill at the grocers was $200. Other stores about town had claims of $600 on him for household furnishings, clothes, books, jewelry. Against him was pending a $1,000 deficiency judgment because his home, on which he had a $5,000 mortgage, brought only $4,000 at forced sale. A friend held his unsecured note for $500. That made his total indebtedness $3,000 and his creditors were clamoring...
...Smalltown journalism is different. In a small community with only one or two newspapers, the editorial tail can wag the financial dog. Thus last week, all on account of the little Huntington, Ind. News (circulation 4,120), the three banks of Huntington were closed, business was crippled, a succession of legal holidays had to be declared by the Mayor...
...Dickson had only smalltown doctors to attend her - Dr. William Patrick Morse, 59, who lives along Rural Delivery Route No. 1 outside Princeton; and Dr. William Louard Cash, 53, obstetrician, who is Mayor of Princeton. They soothed her with drugs for 120 hours, then found and removed from her nose her sneeze-maker-a wild hair...
Grit issues once a week from Williamsport, Pa., where it is published by its founder, a tall, robust, white-crowned German-American named Dietrick Lamade (pronounced Lam'-a-dy). It is a weekly?"America's Greatest Family Newspaper"?of 14 pages plus fiction supplement, aimed carefully at the smalltown family. In makeup it looks as the Christian Science Monitor might look if the Monitor were checkered with pictures. In content it is a strange combination of newspaper, magazine section, almanac, mail order catalog...
...Treasury list is Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago. Banker Traylor's appointment would be satisfying to Kentucky where he was born in a log-cabin 54 years ago, to Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...