Herald Receives Historic Citations for Service and Newsroom Efforts
The Herald marks a century with two major awards including a 1948 VFW citation for veteran aid, the first Iowa paper honored. National Commander Ray Brannan praised its “outstanding” publicity work and efforts reopening Schick hospital, following an AP citation two years earlier for coverage of a railroad strike.
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Iowa
Ray Brannaman
Denver
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Schick Hospital
Associated Press
Experts Scoffed At Mergenthaler And His Linotype
Laszlo Lakatos recalls the 1893 Hungary reaction to the Linotype as “impossible” and credits Gutenberg and the United States with enabling its rise. Immigrating in 1910, he became a notype operator at the Brooklyn Mergenthaler plant, later joining the German Union Seven and shaping typographic history. Now aged 90 in Long Island City, he remains mentally active and engaged with writing and reading.
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Hungary
Laszlo Lakatos
New York
Big Six Typographic Union
Typographic Union
Budapest
Lakatos
Austrian Typographic Union
Mergenthaler Company
Lakalos
Hiervaft
Gutenberg
Long Island City
Teletypes Bring in News AP s Largest News Agency
The Associated Press AP is the world s oldest largest news gathering organization owned by its member newspapers and stations. It began in 1848 with six New York papers sharing costs to gather news and became a cooperative with no stock or profits. AP operates about 100 bureaus in the US and 50 overseas, employs roughly 3 000 staff worldwide, mobilizes about 100 000 local writers, and produces about one million words of news daily across 450 000 miles of leased circuits and global teleprinter links.
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Clinton Herald
Samuel F. B. Morse
New York City
Lawrence A. Gobright
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Foreign Service
United
Atlantic
Far East
The Rise of Journalism Education Across America
The article traces journalism education from Robert E. Lee’s 1860s school to modern programs across about 44 colleges. It highlights a shift from technical training to a broad liberal arts foundation, with emphasis on general education, professional training, and practical newsroom experience under college and newspaper cooperation.
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Washington College
Washington and Lee
American Council On Education For Journalism
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Barrett
Dean Barrett
Newspaper in Classrooms Boosts Learning Says Sauk County Leader
After 190 schools used the daily paper as a teaching tool, Supt. Hart Schoenhoff reports arithmetic, geography, reading and writing improved, vocabulary grew, and students linked lessons to current events. Newspapers aided art, map making, science, history, and civic education through editorial and safety-focused stories.
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Sauk County
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Hart Schoenoff
Forest to Press Continued From Page 4
The article details the pulp production process for newsprint at a mill. It describes stock preparation, mixing groundwood and sulphite stock in an 80 to 20 ratio, the role of color and alum, and the transfer of the blended stock to the paper machine head box for forming the sheet.
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Clinton DuPont
How Newsprint Is Made On The Clinton Herald Machine
A detailed description of paper making on the Herald press line explains wire forming suction and air jets, drying through steam rollers, and finishing by smooth steel rollers. The Judy machine yields 265 inch sheets while Jumbo prints 905 inch sheets, cut to customer widths for distribution to North American plants. The process involves thousands of workers and large private capital investments.
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Canada
United States
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