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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Sherwood Anderson wandered over the Virginia hills from his Troutdale farm to the town of Marion, the townsfolk, inquisitive, turned out to see the Famous Author. But when he wandered over again and bought their printshop, lock, stock and cuspidor, with its two weekly papers, their reaction was not so simple. They were proud that the Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that...
...Hello Towns! Editor Anderson has collected editorials and news stories from his two weeklies, pitched them together with a few running comments, and produced the book-a-year which his enterprising Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing...
Stepping out of a meeting of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, a multitude of publishers stepped into a meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan. Two chief things they found to grow excited about in their 43rd annual meeting...
This law provides that anyone who publishes "a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical is guilty of a nuisance" and may be enjoined from further publication. In the fall of 1927 two men started publishing a Minneapolis weekly paper called The Saturday Press. After publishing nine issues they were hailed into court and the publication ordered suspended. They pleaded that the law was unconstitutional. The Minnesota Supreme Court held otherwise. Under the law the two publishers were perpetually enjoined from publishing their "nuisance" under the name of The Saturday Press or any other name. The case...
...Two years ago Glendon Sr. was Columbia's coach and his son was assisting him. Then Glendon Sr. went to the Navy and Columbia kept the son. In last week's Columbia crew every man but one had once been coached by Glendon Sr. But no Glendon crews ever raced each other in a dual meet until last week...