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Library of Congress1925

Image 3 of The Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), April 9, 1925

READ YOUR NEWSPAPER TO GET THE TRUTH SAYS COLLEGE PROFESSOR Prof Joe Ashlock of the Journalism Department of the State College of Washington Tells Over Radio in Interesting Speech How to Read Your Newspaper For Best Results Reading Your Newspaper to Get the Whole Truth Every day the newspaper presses of the country put out enough papers to enable each person in the land to read the news of the whole world said Prof Joe Ashlock of the State College of Washington journalism de partment speaking over radio K F A E the other right on How to Read Your Newspaper You may read the news of your heme town of the state nation or foreign nations This news coming from round the earth is tossed on your doorstep morning and evening Since the earth is large the news of the earth its nations and people is vast in quantity and variety No one person can read it all One who tries is apt to become bewildered couraged he may quit Dis Ill almost every neighborhood a few will be found who practically never look at the newspaper Several s for this might be suggested reason A prevalent one is

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Library of Congress1956

Image 10 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), October 4, 1956

10 Hardin TribuneHerald Hardin Montana Thursday October 4 1956 OnraEiRTV rTT 1 XWMB O3 Published every Thursday and entered April 4 1952 at the Postoffice at Har din Montana for transmission through the mails as secondclass matter under the act of Congress March 3 1879 EDITORIAL Why National Newspaper Week National Newspaper Week is being observed nationwide October 1 to 8 The following article written by John B Long general manager of the California Newspaper Publishers association and founder of National Newspaper Week explains the founding of and the signifi cance of the annual observance Whv National Newspaper Week The answer to this question which is raised every year goes back to the depths of the notorious depression oi the early 30 s in the United States During those harrowing days the free press ot America was made the whipping boy of prominent men and women in high government positions We were dubbed capitalistic press with a sneer ing snarl of degrading connotation These same impor tant officials kept telling the people the nation s editors were owned and controlled by the big advertisers and editorial policies of American Newspapers were dic tated from the counting room Public confidence and

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Library of Congress1951

Image 7 of The Harlem news (Harlem, Mont.), September 28, 1951

THE READERS DATE BOOK Freedom Is Theme of National Newspaper Week October 18 and Stober V 8 the read e of this newspaper rea e of P ub ca ti n like it in the small Sr Wav ea i d ri 8n Your Newspaper Lights the Way of Freedom During the week the newspapers of Amer operate the details of publics j th tand for but above all they will try to tell the story of freedom And whether or not they succeed or to what degree they succeed may have an everlasting effect upon the lives of their readers For the American press remains one of the great pillars of this nations freedom The word freedom is widely used today It is a word every American takes for granted in all its meanings But sometimes it is an empty word made so before the reader or speaker realizes the fact For instance in a southern town a battle between the communitys newspaper and other elements of the area is underway that may well end in the silencing of that communitys publication The newspaper wants to tell the story of gambling in the commu nity and has atempted to

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Library of Congress1945

Image 4 of The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser (Pascagoula, Miss.), October 12, 1945, (SECTION ONE)

1 To Keep A Free Press Free Recently the newspapers of tins country made annual observance of Newspaper Week and once again we looked on with interest and mixed feelings as one great journal after another and many a small one treated its readership to an editorial diet of sanctity and selfpraise We are proud of the free American press and would rather be a part of this business than any other But we cannot help regretting a maudling element in our business which seeps into the editorial pages oi ine nation on such occasions as News paper Week To get down to details one theme we do not like to see spread across these pages is the theme of selfcongratulation because wethe newspaper industry honestly report the news It is a newspapers implicit duty honestly to report the news No newspaper in America ex ists without its own slants and opinions and spe cial axes to grind whether these be on behalf of some ideal or on behalf of some very special and selfish interest But the tradition of a free press demands that the newspaper leave these slants and opinions to the editorial pages and that its newscolumns

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Library of Congress1925

Image 2 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), April 21, 1925

Open Vour Stow Doors at HieirBMafast liable mm Tfutj W IS oCUBgianC A iHjPMPjfagfe teMrathM M of tta Amricm mnUof mam sjtisrayes asLasrsr 1DapTuU i BuymgPwcr V aisyiir Daytime is Selling Time The calendar isnt wrong Each day ends at midnight not at noon The morning newspaper is better fit ted naturally for an adequate and balanced presentation of the news The same factors that make the morn ing newspaper supreme as a purveyor of news also give it superiority as an advertising medium The morning advertiser appeals to the woman in the home at the very hour when she is planning her days pur chases There is no timegap between reading and buying He opens his store doors at the breakfast table The SecondDay Response Your store receipts come from two classes of buyerscity and suburb an Plan your store messages in morning newspaoers to reach also the multitudes who live in the towns surrounding the city Meet your pros pects through morning newspapers out where the sun comes up behmd the silo In the 377 morning newspaper markets of this country there are MORE homes in suburban zones than in the keycities These logically are morning newspaper homes

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Library of Congress1922

Image 4 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), January 10, 1922

GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE W M Bok Editor a Wanitn Managmr UenardC DMti Bustrws Managt IDITORIAL PACK r A Daily Bible Thought A LOVE FEASTBetter is a dinner of herbs love is than a stalled ox and hat r red therewith Proverbs 1517 J THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER A GREAT many persons know how a newspaper should be run much better than any newspa per editor can know it And they are free to make a present of their advice without money and without price to the newspaper men Thé latter receive such advice gratefully and generally ignore it We judge from a recent article in the Boston Herald that Monfield Storey a well known public writer and speaker of that city has been tell ing the public and the newspaper men just what sort of a daily news paper they ought to have and have not got in the city of Boston and the Boston Herald takes him to task about his opinions as follows He would not waste paper now so dear upon senselesscolored vulgarities This is the old issue of the colored comic in the Sunday newspaper What has been our American experience with it Time was when

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Library of Congress1963

Image 2 of The Lexington advertiser (Lexington, Miss.), June 6, 1963

i r We Must Print The News A Lying Newspaper Is No Good Continued From Pape One T testified that the then Sheriff Smith had told Holmes supervisors he did not intend that any Negroes will vote while he was sheriff I was un der oath to tell the truth And I did The men who disputed my testi mony were talking for quotation in the Holmes County Herald Those who denied Sheriff Smith made the statement at the time and place designated did not do so in court They were not under oath Thein state ment was made to a newspaper that has consistently agitated racial mat ters since it was founded four years ago a newspaper that has done everything it possibly can to destroy me personally and my newspaper This is simply because I have re fused to bow to the wouldbe political bosses of Holmes County or permit them and the Citizens Council pres sure groups through which they work to dictate the editorial and news poli cies of this newspaper T might add that I shall continue to resist their domination and print the truth about all matters of public importance so that the people

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of The Petal paper (Petal, Miss.), April 6, 1961

0 w As a result of the recent news stories about the citizens councils the sovereignty commission and Billy C Barton The PetalHarvey Dispatch PO Box 355 Petal Miss commented as follows THE PETALHARVEY DISPATCH REPRESENTS THE PETALHARVEY AREA The PetalHarvey Dispatch is the only newspaper domiciled in Petal Miss In a news release out of Jackson Miss last week re ference was made to the fact an individual Barton who is in controversy with the Citizens Council of the state is a close friend of P D East publisher of the Petal Paper Petal Miss At the present time there is no newspaper published at Petal by P D East The only newspaper of record in Petal is the Petal Harvey Dispatch published by the Leaf River Publications and it has no connection whatsoever with any other news paper ever published here We hold no brief for the Citizens council the Sov erignty Commission or P D East We do believe that this newspaper supported by the business men and the citizens of Petal should be fully rec ognized as the only newspaper representing Petal and its citizens The citizens council should be more careful in its presentations and

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Library of Congress1903

Image 8 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), March 21, 1903

Tf Me is an Jd story about the fSrir wrrA tois Wife who were not tali dird with their home and de eld 4 to pat their farm in the hands oan agent for sale Soon the realtor they read of a beauti tel place which they decided would exactly suit them They ailed on the agent only to find It was their own farm they had so jaech admired and as the agent had atated the facts they with drew it from the market They hai overlooked the good things round them antil a stranger had pointed them oat This is a very common experience We usually think the other fellow has the eas ier time of a better business be cause we dont know all about Ills troubles or disadvantages and because we dont fully appre ciate our good things Ex Your great man shines before the populace in vain without the newspaper He spreadeagles the Constitution in vain without the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vain without the newspaper His most astounding financial enterprises serve him in vainwithout the newspaper His scientific re searches and achievehments are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless

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Library of Congress1899

Image 4 of The Pascagoula democrat-star (Pascagoula, Miss.), March 24, 1899

THE AVERAGE CITIZEN THE NEWSPAPER AND Kurort KiRlittr His most amusing to hoc tlie man ner in which the average citizen looks upon newspapers Iu selecting his newspaper he takes the one which pleases his fancy moot and usually the one which he thiuks gives him the most news at least the most news of the character ho would like to read and would be most Interested In If he gets married has a child born Into the family if he goes abroad or does some commendable public act if he makes an inprovemcnt to his prop erty or does anything which pleases him he wants to see it magnified as much as possible and appear In the newspaper he has graciously and con descendingly bestowed his patronage on If a child or relative get married lie wants to see It gorgeously written up If some of his relatives gain dis tinction in any of the walks of life he proudly brings it to the newspaper for comment no nutter whether anyone else in Uie community knows or is in tcrcsted iu the relative or not he Is and that issuftlcient If the afore said relative Is sick or dies

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Library of Congress1953

Image 6 of St. Ignatius post (St. Ignatius, Mont.), December 17, 1953

PAGE 6 Madisonian Editor Tolls About The Weekly Newspaper The Elks lodge at that flour tahingold old touristcentered bonanza town of Montanas 60s treated the Madisonian sass to a steak dinner in ob ervance of National News newspaper week and his brought forth some comment from the editor in his column Pannin The Tailings A substantial portion of it is as follows Few are the people who realize What the local newspaper means and what the staff goes through to get the newspaper to its read trt In fact the editor himself doesnnt realize to its fullest ex tent what the newspaper means because he is usually snowed un der with minute details so that he cant sep the woods because Of the trees Rut we are still sticking to our original purposetn protect the individual from society and from the government People get griped at us because they cant get a story in the paper when they want it in sometimes but they get in trouble and their btorv is on the front page immed iately Let them answer this how would they like to live in a place where they could be arrested put in prison whipped or

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Library of Congress1902

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 4, 1902

funny things How Newspaper Humor Has Grown and Changed The Short Joke is a Product of Recent Years JVlany Good Samples of Wit and Humor in Past and Present In the file room of The Baltimore American are the bound volumes of the paper dating back to 1773 writes W IX Nesbit Josh Wink in the Inde pendent Here the person who feels an interest in the study of the growth and development of newspaper humor In America may spend some musty dusty tjlIt doubtless enlightening hours Con sidered in the light of present day wit there was no newspaper humor a cen tury ago If we will but remember the mental attitude ot the strictly moraled people of those days we shall recall the fact that at that time any mani festation of humor was regarded as in tensely unregenerate if not wholly wicked w see in the historical novel of today much of the sprightly wit and brilliant conversation of the old colonial regime but it was not re flected in the papers of that time To get any newspaper humor to speak of tve mu t on down to about 50 years ago lien it began to

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Library of Congress1925

Image 8 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), June 16, 1925

W01V M resent the thought that they are concerned chiefly with the Womans Page of a newspaper The interest of a woman of today is certainly not limited to the gossip of fash ions and flippancies A nation and world interest is hers The ENTIRE morning newspaper is a womans newspaper Extract from nationwide interviews with women regarding newspaper influence Daily Kennebec Journal Copyright 1925 EMERSON B KNIGHT lac INDIAN APOUS

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Library of Congress1917

Image 3 of The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.), September 30, 1917

10 rat ED Elaborate Program Devised for Newspaper Mens Pleasure IMPORTANT SPEAKERS 0 j i Piominent Journalists Will Address Associations Convention All Is In readiness for the annual meeting of the Montana State Press association which will convene in Missoula Wednesday for a fourday session which promises to be one of the best that has ever been held by the state editors From all over the state newspaper men will come to Missoula to attend the meetings From the number Of letters and inquiries received by the Missoula Chamber of Commerce it ap pears that nearly every newspaper in the state will be represented Program Interesting The program which has been an nounced after nearly two months of preparation by the committee in charge of the meeting is filled with addresses by prominent newspaper men of Montana and the northwest Every moment will be occupied by some live event and the editors have been assured a royal entertainment while in Missoula Already some of the delegates have arrived and a number more are ex pected in Missoula before the mect msß begin Many of the editors are dunning to see Missoula and the out yilig vttileys and have made arrange

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Library of Congress1921

Image 20 of Great Falls tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), October 23, 1921

GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE W M BoitSdHr a S WarOtn Manager UonardC DUN Buthfi Manag ID1TOR SAL PAGE A Daily Bible Thought JOY ON THE SABBATH A day in thy courts better than a thou sand I had rather be a doorkeeper in the hiise of my God than to dwell in the tents of wicked nessPsalm 8410 PRESIDENT HARDING ON PROPAGANDA PRESIDENT HARDING is an experienced newspaper edi tor When he wrote a letter to the newspaper men which was read be fore the National Press convention at its recent meeting in Honolulu he wrote as a newspaper man rath er than as president of the United States and he touched a subject that is a live issue with all think ing newspaper editors He warned them against propaganda He said in part I cannot but feel that the primary purpose of the press as a social institution is the opening of mens minds rather than the closing of them Propaganda aims primarily at shutting up the mind against other conclusions than those which the propagandists de sign to implant Education on the contrary aims to open the mind to prepare it to make it receptive and to urge

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Library of Congress1902

Image 8 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 15, 1902

I If I r r There arc only two essentials of Btisiness Successin any business First adequate capital Second a fair price for your goods with a reasonable profit A newspaper like any other commodity should be sold at a profiteach individual copy Any newspaper which is not thus sold is not independentits dependence is upon its advertisers or some other contrib utory powerand this dependence is inconsistent with abso lute honesty FRANK A MUNSEY U A Newspaper Devoted to intimate Information as to Their Important Interests THE SUNDAY TIMES Tomorrows issue will be so well worth its cost so valuable to every resident of this city that it would be an offense against common sense as well as business wisdom not to call attention to it in every possible way It will be beautifully illustrated contain thirtysix pages and be full of strong able authoritative ar ticles on important subjects interesting to every member of the family The price of the Sunday Times tomorrow and thereafter will be FIVE cents because it is worth FIVE cents and so good a newspaper cannot be sold for less Since its former price was set it has grown from eighteen pages to

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Library of Congress1908

Image 7 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), December 5, 1908, (Last Edition)

A STRAIGHT SEVENDAY NEWSPAPER bs bs wl A be deg Yoder 2 Yeofrelrelochrodorfcfectrefecdde Fedde poeedeofedeeesdedededdedrodeodeeds dededengefede bededdodeodoboddobedd ols At the Uniform Price of One Cent a Copy H Fofofoafosfod saforgoosfosf forfoul A PERSONAL TALK BY MR MUNSEY TO THE READERS OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES ABOUT THIS NEW IDEA To the Readers of The Washington Times fort and alertness to the news from ue bodith JSS uh dedi She dtutuabiins cratiialiee Ll BE Salgie SEEC GB Fb uit dana bs ld addi SBR LB de addin di There is no sane argument against doing a thing be cause it is not being done or because it never has been done The fact that there is now no Sunday evening newspaper in America does not weigh heavily against the idea If there are any reasons why we should not have a Sunday evening newspaper they are vital not con ventional Convention is often accepted as a reason but there is no reason in it It is mere usage habit and this habit is sometimes well founded and sometimes not Br o ae Boks 1 vp po a Bos z s de he The Sunday morning newspaper is an accepted fact It is

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Library of Congress1926

Image 22 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), January 30, 1926

22 Announcements fhQna Ctaoeifiod Ada to Main 520 LOST AND FOUND 1 CAMEO PlNLarge vicinity Iansburgh or Ktnnr Monday reward Mrs Thacker Potomac 2219 COLLIE white face four white paws white tip on tail 3 months old named Carlo Notify Houston 1744 8 St N W North 2614 Reward FINDERS If you find anything and cannot locate the owner through the Loot and Found ads in thia newspaper call at Room 422 Hearst Bldg and through the Lost and Found Index which contains a complete list of ail lost articles that have been advertised In this newspaper in the past two 8 830 LOST from pocketbook at Mass j aehusetts Ave entrance Naval Ob servatory Sat morning West 1434 Mr Willis WRIST WATCHLadies with black ribbon Navy Bldgfront of Shipping Board entrance Reward for return Columbia 4708 LOSERS When you advertise a loot article in the Lost and Found classi fication of this newspaper your adver tisement receives the benefit of FREE listing in the Lost and Found Index maintained by the Want Ad Service Bureau of this newspaper Tour ad vertisement is filed in this index for a period of two 2 months Such SERVICE facilitates the recovery of

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