Country Paper Guards Nation and Sheds Sensationalism
The country press shapes national unity by avoiding sensationalism and championing the interests of small towns and rural communities. It fights for local, educational, agricultural, and industrial aims, influencing national policy and wartime patriotism while linking readers to friends, births, and community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balfour
Great Britain
London
America
Congress
Mr. Balfour
Farm Press
Country
The Community Newspaper By Bob Adams
A nostalgic tribute to the local paper as a steadfast friend across distances. The author recalls love and debt to the Record Journal or Gazette, praising its comforting, faithful news and promising six years of advance payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Adams
Record
Journal
Gazette
Paris
Subscribing to a Home Town Paper Week Tales
A Plaindealer editor recalls a Rockies peddler who returned to Canton and reconnected with kin after years away. The story highlights how a hometown paper reaches distant places and sparks family ties across miles during November 7-12 observances.
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Willitson Manley
The
Plaindealer
Canton
N. Y
Rockies
I Am the Country Newspaper the Home’s Trusted Voice
The piece presents the country newspaper as a community chronicler and market connector. It describes the paper as a friend to families, delivering tidings, guidance, and wholesome messages to readers of all ages, recording births, loves, deaths, and local life.
Pris cilla earns school honors noted by Home Town Paper
Mrs Smith recalls Pris cilla's school work honors mentioned in the Home Town Paper. Mrs Brown learns of the item and subscribes, highlighting the paper as a key part of community life during Home Town Paper Week November 7 to 12.
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Priscilla
Mrs. Smith
Mrs. Brown
Local paper value argued by farmers at creamery
Two farmers debate the worth of a home town paper. One questions subscribing citing savings while the other defends the local newspaper as essential for community information and personal connection, noting the rural mail carrier will deliver a copy weekly.
A Community Servant and the Local Newspaper
The town newspaper is described as a servant of the community, deserving support like schools and churches. It emphasizes that nourishment from local people makes the paper efficient and worthy as an institution of the town.
A Necessary Luxury in the Town Newspaper
This brief notes how the local paper serves as both a luxury and essential family necessity, reflecting its valued role in daily life and community connection.
Local Library Chronicles Historic Baptist Fire Date
A librarian helps a town history seeker locate the 1873 Baptist church fire in bound Herald volumes. The exchange highlights local newspapers as vital historic records and the library’s role in preserving them as official references for the community. The library promotes Subscribe for Your Home Town Paper Week from November 7 to 12.
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Herald
Woman's Club
Home Town Paper Week Campaign Highlights Community Role
The article promotes Home Town Paper Week November 7 12, stressing the local paper as a community institution vital to church school and civic life. It notes broad support from newspapers ministers schools colleges and farm bureaus and urges residents to subscribe.
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United States
Farm and Home Bureau
Nation Over
A Messenger to Garcia in a Local Newspaper Notice
A town newsletter urges residents to support the local paper through subscriptions and advertising. It frames the newspaper as a community messenger to the world and calls on readers to contribute to its quality and reach.
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Garcia
Mickie Says Extra Nour Home On Paper Week
Mickie announces a promotional Extra Nour Home event themed week with invitations extended to readers and participants. The notice invites attendance and participation during the week's activities.
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Nour
A Fine Old Home Paper Keeps the Good Old Time
A nostalgic verse-homage to the local weekly newspaper praising its enduring charm despite rough print and aging type. The poem catalogs small town life notes from Smith's cat to Jones's pumps and wedding bells, celebrating community lookups.
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Smith
Jones
Chum
Jack Wiltsey
Johnson
Geo
FE. Wray
Back to Town Crier and the plight of Macon Mo
A discussion on the loss of newspapers in Macon Missouri and the temporary revival of the town crier. The piece reflects on how communities rely on printed notices for auctions sales court sessions births deaths ordinances and tax notices and argues for supporting local papers to avoid a return to old methods.
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Macon
Chronicle-Herald
He Knows His Folks Local Paper Observations
A visiting observer notes that reading the local paper keeps residents informed about home events. He argues that thorough readers are better citizens and that local papers uphold state and national institutions more than any other force.
Editor’s view from a farm paper to the heart of a town
A farm paper editor explains the metropolitan daily serves the city while the local editor reflects community sentiment. He is the true interpreter of events affecting the surrounding farming community and town life.
Indiana and Indiana Rail Lines File Franchise Surrenders
Multiple rail and traction companies including the Indianapolis area lines filed with the public service commission to surrender franchises across six counties and twenty-two towns and cities such as Indianapolis Irvington Danville Plainfield Newcastle Greenfield Knights town Clermont Brownsburg Pittsboro Jamestown and Martinsville.
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Indianapolis
Crawfordsville
Spiceland
Lewisville
Straughns
Clermont
Brownsburg
Pittsboro
Jamestown
New Tess
Mooresville
Martinsville
Lafayette
Dairy Extension Department
Purdue University
Goshen
Elkhart County
Huntington County
Shelbyville
Addison Township
Miami County
Culver
Indiana National Guard
Culver Military Academy
National Guard
Charles B. Riley
Indiana Grain Dealers' Association
Federal
Indiana
Washington, D. C
Federal Board
Ohio
Richmond
Eastern Indiana Hospital
Evansville
Wabash
Claude E. Gregg
Vincennes
American Legion of
Gregg
Joseph D. O’neill
Muncie
Col. L. B. Gignilliat
Terre Haute
Ralph Williams
Treaty
Tire
Atlas
Hartford City
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Bill
Tom
IYET
Johnsons
Wright A. Patterson
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the Community Newspaper
Heart OF the Rockies
the Country Newspaper
Bristow Adams
Community’s Archives
Mickie
Hoosier News
McCray
Herbert Foltz
State Board For the Registration of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
Maurice EB. Crites
Fast
Chicago
Lake County Superior Court
Hammond
State Association of County Auditors of
H. H. Nutter
Morgan County
HH. M. Gardner
Cass County
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