Big Investment Plenty of Work In Paper Making
New York City reports on the paper industry tracing its start in Pennsylvania nearly 300 years ago. The story covers the rise of pulp and newsprint, key figures like William Rittenhouse, Nicolas-Louis Robert, and the Fourdriniers, and historical price shifts and shortages. It notes the vast scale of today’s papermaking and the cost of pulp and equipment, with dramatic notes on rag paper shortages during wartime and even mummies used for linen in emergencies.
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New York City
Pennsylvania
Bob Considine
China
Europe
Italy
France
Germany
England
William Rittenhouse
Germantown
Nicholas-Louise Robert
London
Henry and
Sealy Fourdrinier
Robert
Knopf
Egypt
Typographical Error Haunts Final Newspaper Issue
Poetic impersonation recalls a typographical slip haunting a newspaper before press. A boss groans as a copy reader mourns the error while the rest of the issue appears clean. The piece reflects on how one slip can dominate a print run.
Rise of the Penny Press and Modern Newspaper Industry
The passage traces the newspaper’s rise from fragmented prints to a dominant daily force. It notes the penny press’s role in widening readership, the Civil War to World War II circulation surge, and current figures: 327 daily morning papers with 21.4 million readers, 1,458 evening papers with 39.1 million readers, 544 Sunday papers with 50.9 million readers, and 7,705 weeklies with 21.4 million readers.
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U. S
Their Start in Life Survey of a Thousand Successful Men
A survey of one thousand successful men traces how they began their careers. Three hundred were farm sons, two hundred sold or carried papers, two hundred were messenger boys, one hundred were printers apprentices, one hundred started in factories, fifty at railroads, and only fifty had well to do parents. The piece notes that ambition and hard work, not luck or indolence, propelled major innovations and achievements.
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Niagara Falls
Embarrassed Woman Hides Bottles in Neighbors Can
A humorous tale recalls a woman who found two empty whiskey bottles in her garbage. She hurriedly removed them to avoid the garbage man thinking she drank. To dispose of suspicion she placed the bottles in the neighbor preacher's can, arguing he does not drink.
He Worked His Way Through College and Back Home
A reflective note on a man who funded his education by labor and returns to the starting point to support his son. The piece cites perseverance and the enduring grip of money worries as the root of all evil remains hard to unearth.
Mother of Eleven Jokes About Managing Large Family
A mother replies to a teacher who asks how she handles eleven kids. She quips that with one child she had plenty of time, so eleven cannot take up more than that.
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Citizens State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Butler
Georgia
McKesson
Kessamin
Ford
Indianapolis
Payne Motor Company
Butler, Georgia
S. Bay
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