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Iowa editors establish coordinated telephone news exchange
W G Young and others describe a state wide overnight news exchange begun in Des Moines. The Des Moines office coordinates circuits at 10 30 11 00 and 11 30 to feed Cedar Rapids Gazette Muscatine Journal Ottumwa Courier and others with news from 100 correspondents. The system improves prompt publication and elevates the Muscatine Journal to a leading Iowa paper.
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Iowa
Muscatine Journal
Frank E. Lyman, Jr
Des Moines
Iowa Evening Press
State of Iowa
Sytem
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone
Western Union Telegraph Companies
News Arcade
Frank E. Lyman,Jr
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Telephone Company
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
State Service