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Newsreel.Bhop talk—Every newspaper has some peculiar ideas but few papers are as strict on style as the. Kansas City Star—The Star has a rule that the name, picture or any reference to one certain animal never can appear in the paper—That animal is a snake—(In respect to the Star, we are not mentioning the name of the paper and the animal in the same sentences)—Last Friday the ''Gasoline Alley” comic strip with “Skeeslx* and “Uncle Walt” was built around a snake which “Skeezix” found in the grass —AH papers which came into Emporia except .one, showed the snake —That one paper was the Star and it carried a remodeled comic strip with the original animal missing and a hoptoad in its place—A Star artist redrew the .whole thing because one of the powers-that-be doesn't like that certain animal— Willard Mayberry, of Emporia, who is editor of the. Elkhart Tri-8tate News, has only a weekly paper but he has city ideas—When Glenn Cunningham, Elkhart boy, broke the world’s record in the mile run at Chicago Saturday, Mayberry put out a l-p*ge extra edition of his paper—Street seen*—Mart Kret-slnger. who shot 38 holes of golf Memorial day. still a little stiff from tho big exercise—Three teams of horses at one street intersection,pulling a buggy, a gravel wagon and a farm wagon.—F. C. C.
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Emporia Weekly Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Thu, Jun 05, 1930
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