Image 6 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), October 29, 1894
SHE RATTLED HIM For a reporter with but little to write fcmd plenty of time in which to write it there Is nothing more pleasant than to dic tate a narrative to a cheerful typewriter particularly if she be young and have nice soft hair to distract the eye and well formed white fingers and bo withal ex ceedingly pleasing but for a reporter with a long yarn to write and a limited amount of time to finish it things sometimes have u different aspect Near Printing House square is a type writing office which many newspaper men frequent A new girl came there one day last weeka real nice girl and an excel lent operatorbut she had never done that kind of work before V hiie she was sit ting in the main room upon the afternoon of her first day a newspaper man came hustling in and Mrs J have you got anybody to take a two column story in a hurry Yes replied the manager Hero is a young lady who has just como to us Miss BrownMr Smith You can go into that corner room In three minutes the young lady was seated at her machine