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Library of Congress1940

Image 2 of Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), September 6, 1940

American Newspaperdom Joins in Honoring Johann Gutenberg Who Gave the World the Invention of Printing From Movable Type By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union HE American press dur ing 1940 is paying hom age to Johann Guten berg who 500 years ago in a little workshop in the free city of Strasbourg now in Germany invented the art that makes possible the mod ern newspaper Gutenbergs inventionthe discovery of a technique for casting from lead individual types bearing individual let ters which can be arranged into lines for the printing of words and sentencesmakes it possible for you to read what is on this page Citywide celebrations honor ing the father of printing in which newspapers are actively participating are being held dur ing the year 1940 throughout the western hemisphere as the result of the outstanding promotional Work of Douglas C McMurtrie chairman of the Invention of Printing Anniversary committee for the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen an organization made up of 6000 printing foremen and superin tendents and leaders of other graphic arts groups T The significance of Gutenbe r gs invention can best be evaluated by looking backward into the world before the

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Library of Congress1918

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 21, 1918

6 all sorts _A11 Ships Huns Damaged Now in U S Service Despite all the efforts made by their crews to render them useless nearly a hundred formerly interned German ships are now flying the Stars and Stripes in the service of the United States navy says the March Popular Mechanics Maga zine It develops that although the Huns were convinced their vandalism made our use of the boats impossible the navy has not only managed to repair all of them but has done the work so skill fully that in no case has failure or weak ness since developed Fire extinguishers were filled with gasoline incendiary prep arations made and gauges reversed Steam pipes were plugged by disjointing them driving in slugs of solid brass and then concealing the work by renewing the connections Meter Which Registers Telephone Calls A recently invented telephone meter described and illustrated in the March Popular Mechanics Magazine is designed to prevent errors in charging calls and t make the service more satisfactory to the subscriber in other respects Being of comparatively simple construction it can be installed in the signal case of a coinoperated telephone with slight alter ations The device comprises two

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Library of Congress1838

Image 3 of Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector (Liberty, Miss.), September 22, 1838

1 I Tiifl xewspafes raras To tbo sheet of paper which you see on your tables served to you so regularly and studied by you with so much ease the four quarters of the globe colitributo all the treasures 01 tneir intelligence isone mn valuable to mankind discovered by some scholar in the farthest ends of tho earth Ten to one but you will see it first announ ced in ft parigtuph of your newspaper Is there any abuse in your laws it is the newspaper press that drags it trday Is there any invention that will augment your comforts or sharpen your industry it is in the newspaper that it becomes familiar to you nil The newspaper is the chronicle of civilization the common reservoir into which every 6treatn pours its living wa ters and at which every man may come ta drink It is the newspaper that gives to liberty its practical life its constant ob servation its perpetual vigilance its unre axing activity Tho newspaper is a dai ly and a sleepless watchman that reports to you every danger which menaces the institutions of your country and its inter ests at home and abroad The newspaper informs

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Library of Congress1907

Image 7 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), February 2, 1907

E js i i W iiM V illlll V m OR Pg 4 M w JT L i J r i V o V I cHmerican Women as Newspaper Writers By Katherine Thomas Newspapers Cannot Get On Without WomenMentally and Physically an Eiausting Occu pationThe Society Reporter Must Be a Listening Machine Excels as an Interviewer Copyright ty Joseph U Bowles Katherine E Thomas is one of the best known women writers for newspa pers at Washington Her book on Of ficial Etiquette at the Nations Capital is regarded as a standard She has also written a novel on Washington society ntitled Not All the Kings Horses Womans place on the newspapers today is due to the law of demand and supply She has not crowded man out It is distinctively a posi tion into which she has neither forced her way nor sought in ever so limited a degree to oust man from that do main in which since the invention of the art of printing he had held exclu tive right With the evolution of successive stages of progress the necessity of womans work on the press became so Apparent that the cry went forth throughout the land

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Library of Congress1888

Image 4 of The Magnolia gazette (Magnolia, Miss.), September 1, 1888

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Library of Congress1909

Image 4 of The Jones County news (Ellisville, Miss.), September 10, 1909

I j j I The Junes County News seeding the KUluvilh IDO A It U 11 ARRIS Koitor Friday Mornii IublUhed Ever t 100 a Year ity of Jon tfl a Journal of the Col the City of Ëlliiville T elephones looming Room No 107 Editorial Editor R 18 N Friday jt inner 10 1900 NOTE WORTH V ACHIEVEMENT The usi coming cl mastery of the ai worthy achieve for tho i ew coni art When the curtain tho alose I tn which boon marl and in volition it was bolievod that little else r rimmed for the mastery of man But we reolti no 1 wrong And who krmvs hut that in tho near futuro marvels of which wo now little tires in may bj wrested from tho groat m known and dedi cated to I he service of tho race and tho glory of Iid Already the wizirds of invention nro flu ting with mysterious currents in the hope cf tinally gathering from tho elements light hoat und powerby which night may be transformed into day and winter into summer Who known but that they may enoooed Tins is a fast agetho fastest perhaps that tbo world has

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Library of Congress1903

Image 2 of Water Valley progress (Water Valley, Miss.), December 26, 1903

THE GOTHAM PRESS New York Journalism and the Men Behind the Papers A NEW NEWSPAPER ROW Editor Reid In Building n ew Home for the TribuneThe Movement Up TownA Comparinon of the Old and Xew New YorkWhitelaw Reid has no fear that Newspaper Row will move H r Reid as a Buildar uptown He has bought 30000 square feet of land next the old Tri bune building and will not only cover it with an addition but will extend the entire structure to the height of 19 stories This reconstruc tion will complete a cycle of building in New York It is a trifle less than one generation since the present moiine Duuamg oi ten siories wus erected It was the marvel of Its day and one of the highest office buildings ever erected in the oldfashioned way before the steel skeleton method was invented of raising skyscrapers Its lower story walls are as thick as those of a castle on the Rhine I remember well reading as a lad in the country the description of the Tribunes new building and wondering if l should ever see it The avid memory of youth reminds me how the architect proved that

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 25, 1891

She Wore the Ring A sharming girl had a fine pair sof solitaire diamond earrings and she lost one of them to her infinite sorrow She could not find it any where and after months of grief and spasmodic search lhe resigned Therself to doing without diamond earrings Having lost the mate of it she did not know what to do with a single stone but she was full of womanly invention She was en gaged to a struggling young mati without money except what he earned and unable to bestow dia amonds on his fiancee One day she was walking with her sweetIheart and and suddenly pausing she pointed to a point of light in the street and said What is that a diamond He stooped and picked it up with delight and surprise I suppose whoever lost such a tem will advertise it he said Well you keep it said she until it is ad vertised for and if it is not you can have it set in a ring for me She wears the ring now and he does not know yet why that diamond was not advertised for or that his sweet iheart dropped it in

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