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Library of Congress1903

Image 8 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), June 6, 1903

THE COLD TRUTH How much do men owe to newspa pers for whatever notoriety reputa tion or fame they may acquire or have thrust op them As the New York Press says before the populace in vainwithout the newspaper He spreadeagles the constitution in vainwithout the newspaper His clarion voice wakes up the universe in vainwithout the newspaper His most astounding fin ancial enterprises serve him in vain without the newspaper His scien tific researches and achievements are in vainwithout the newspaper His wireless telegraph would be an accom plishment of small meritwithout the newspaper His successes in every walk of life are in vainwithout the The newspaper is the Of course 4 Your great man Shines newspaper famemaker of the age some of the fame is cheap but it sat isfies the living wearer of the cloak even though posterity change it Let the newspaper cease to mention in any way the names of men who fancy that their fame is secure and they would soon drop out of signt Ex y y Weak Are due to indigestion Ninetynine of eveiy one hundred people who have heart trouble can remember when it was simple indiges tion It is a

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Library of Congress1963

Image 3 of The Chronicle (Pascagoula, Miss.), December 2, 1963

Say Newspaper Must Be Lawyer For The People CHICAGO UPIStuart List publisher of the Chicagos American told high school newspaper editors and advisers Friday that a newspaper must be an attorney for the peo ple A newspaper should realize that to accept evil without pro test is in reality to cooperate with it he said in a speech for delivery to the annual conven tion of the National Scholastic Press Association It is not enough to love the flowers You must also hate the weeds List said basic good taste and high standards of performance are marks of how a newspaper meets its responsibilities A newspaper must know the people of its community and love them he said Always the newspaper must ask the question do we reflect what is good for the people of the com munity not what is good for ourselves List represented the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation in presenting this years journalism awards for general excellence to five high school newspapers TVia irinnofc nrnrA Pa1_ legian Baltimore City College Baltimore Md The Hoofbeat Murrah High School Jackson Miss The Rocket John Mar shal High School Rochester Minn The Profile Proviso West High School Hillside

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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of Holmes County herald (Lexington, Miss.), December 14, 1961

EDITORIAL PAGE MJme HERALD Published by the Holmes County Publishing Company at 200 Tchula Street Lexington Mississippi Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington Mississippi as Second Class mail un der the Act of Congress of March 3 1879 Subscription rates for Holmes and adjoining counties per year 300 six months 175 elsevvhe e pel year 350 Jack A Shearer Jr Editor W J Pritchard Linda ILeonard Mechanical Superintendent Womens Editor EDITORIAL COMMENT NEWSPAPER STILL TOPS AS ADVERTISING MEDIA Reprinted From StarFIerald Kosciusko The introduction of a new product or a new place of business is the most diffi cult of all advertising jobs It is a job which is nearly always entrusted to the newspaper by both local retailers and na tional advertisers The manufacturer of a new electric shaver has listed six reasons for choos ing newspapers as a medium for intro ducing the new product 1 Newspapers permit concentration in specific markets 2 Newspapers allow a company to capitalize on the news atmosphere of the medium in announcing a new product 3 The newspaper provides the advan tage of large page sizewith greater impact 4 The newspaper offers greater flexi bility than other media 5 The newspaper gives

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Library of Congress1953

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 21, 1953

President Continued from Page One strong the National Newspaper Publishers Association initiated Negro Newspaper Week in 1942 to commemorate the founding of the first Negro newspaper The 1953 Negro Newspaper Week began Sunday and continues thru March 21 A highlight of the week was the announcement Saturday of the annual Russwurm awards given in honor of John B Russwurm founder of Americas first Negro newspaper Freedoms Journal in 1927 In announcing this yeais Russ wurm award winners NN PA gave recognition to ten persons organi zations or institutions that made j substantial contributions to a democratic way of life The citation read by Dowdal Davis chairman Negro Newspaper Week Committee during a nation wide broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company network and affiliated stations Saturday night stated The National Newspaper Pub lishers Associations Russwunp a ward is proudly presented to the recipient in recognition of out standing achievement in making possible a richer conception of democratic principles and in tri bute for upholding those highest traditions considered as the ideals JULIUS MITCHELL Invites You To The BOOKER T GRILL Where You Will Always Find The Best Of Home Cooking Finest Foods SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS ICF COLD BEER ViH The

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Library of Congress1958

Image 2 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 15, 1958

131 AND STILL LIGHTING THE WAY to FREEDOM tSggEif IH _ THE JACKSON ADVOCATE Is Proud to Cooperate with Fellow Publishers In the Observance of NEGRO NEWSPAPER I MARCH 16 22 Commemorating the founding of Freedoms Journal the first Negro Newspaper by John B Russwurm on March 17 1827 in New York City r S Special Events SUNDAY MARCH 16 In mon Churches special sermons will be preached commemora ting the 131st Anniversary of the first Negro Newspaper TUESDAY MARCH 18 A Negro Newspaper Week Radio Broadcast over Station WXXX 000 megacycles at 545 P M featuring Sammy Davis Jr Billy Eckstine Jackie Robinson and William O Walker announced by Beverly Carter FRIDAY MARCH 21 Open House at the Jackson Advocate Plant Visitors are welcome See how a modem newspaper is edited printed distributed and managed SATURDAY MARCH 22 Another Negro Newspaper Week Radio Program on Sta y tion WZZZ 000 megacycles at 915 P M featuring Lena Horne Ella Fitzgerald Rev Martin Luther King Jr and h Frank L Stanley announced by Thomas W Young No Other Source of Information or Entertainment Gives You All These Negro Newspapers like the Jackson Advocate present the truth about stumb ling blocks

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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 Congress1915

Image 6 of The Glasgow courier (Glasgow, Mont.), January 29, 1915

TheGlasgowCourier Published very Friday at Glasgow Montana T J HOCKING Editor Entered as second class matter Oc tober 61911 at the postoffice at Glas Cow Montana under the act of March S 1879 f UNFAIR TO NEWSPAPERS There are two proposed measures pending in the state senate and house which are so manifestly unfair to newspapers that every newspaper in the state most heartily should condemn them and what is more the facts re garding them should be made so evi dent that the justice of the newspaper claim as to those measures impropri ety would be sanctioned by the entire state The bills in question relate to the giving of county printing contracts their purpose being to make it pos sible to award such contracts to job printing offices not connected with newspaper establishments There are a thousand arguments that could be offered against such measures as those When a new community begins its career is it the newspaper or the job printing office that first establishes itself in that new locality being will ing to share the towns ups and downs and lend its best efforts toward the upbuilding of the place It is the newspaper of course

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Library of Congress1963

Image 2 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 16, 1963

NewspaperPeople Affinity By Rosecoe Drummond More Americans are reading newspa pers more thoroughly than ever before There must be a reason Despite the decline in the total num ber of newspapers total newspaper cir culation in the United States today is at an alltime high There must be a reason The reason must have something to do with newspapersand people There is a special affinity between them between newspapers and people People must feel a great identity of interest with their own newspapers One of the reasons may well be that the printed word requires more of its read ers than any other media Readers get more out of newspapers because they put more of themselvesmore of their own thinkinginto their newspapers I do not speak disparagingly of other news media quite the opposite I think that radio and television reporting is a tremendous boon to our democracy Radio and television reporting greatly expands the surface of public know ledge In my judgement most newspapers greatly expand the depth of public know ledge Dictator Diem The latest clear act of dictatorship in South Vietnam where American boys are being asked to die fighting for the regime is the imposition of

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Library of Congress1957

Image 8 of Jackson advocate (Jackson, Miss.), March 9, 1957

Los Angeles Continued from Page One believe in them for several reasons For one thing the Rev White said I want to know what is hap j pening among my own people I do not find this in other papers For another thing I believe the Ne j gro newspaper is the articulate voice of the Negro in ways no other j paper at the moment can be For another thing the Negro newspaper is a Negro business I believe in supporting Negro busi ness Finally the Negro newspaper has been the instrument for pro ducing some great newspaper peo ple and they never would have de veloped otherwise The Rev White advised his con gregation that it can take any one of the reasons mentioned above as valid for your support of the Negro press Patronize Our Advertisers This man con give you dependoble delivery of THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VMONITOR 4 an international daily newspaper Housewives businessmen teachers and students all over the world read and enjoy this international newspaper pub lished daily in Boston World famous for constructive news stories and penetrating editorials Special features for the whole fomily ___i The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St Boston

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Library of Congress1925

Image 9 of Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.), May 25, 1925

Today the effect of your morning news paper advertisement is evident in sales made to residents of this dty You cover a vast multi tude of buying families within the city limits But you reach also another abletobuy field outside of the city limits TrDayWl tuyingToutr JJORNING newspaper advertising lives two days This fact has dis tinct bearing upon the manner in which you use morning newspaper space if you wish to obtain maximum returns from your advertising investment Ad vertising messages in this morning newspaper that are planned to inter est and inspire returns from two sep arate and distinct classes of readers on two different days will bring two days of active selling to you Newspaper space is like a field of fertile ground The better the plant ing and cultivation the betterthe crop Discuss this vital pointwith your advertising department or agen cy Plan your messages in morn ing newspapers for a 2day pull Dailx Kennebec Journal Copyriilit TO5 EMERSON B KNIGHT In INDIANAPOLIS Tomorrow the effect of todaya delivered and read today advertise ment is shown in sales made to suburban and rural families Throughout die entire trading zone this newspaper is the strong est link

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Library of Congress1937

Image 13 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), June 30, 1937

Publishers Map Fight on Closed Guild Shop Editors Take Stand After Convention of Editorial Workers Claim Unions Resolutions on Spanish War and Court Bill Menace Freedom of Press By United Press CHICAGO American newspaper publishers are on record today as unalterably opposed to the closed Guild shop or any other form of closed shop for those who prepare and edit news and pictures for news papers A resolution to that effect was adopted unanimously late yesterday at a convention of newspaper pub lishers from all parts of the United States The publishers declared termination not to enter agreement with editorial upon a closed shop basis their de into any employes The convention which was called after the St Louis Guild convention adopted a bargaining code which in cluded mandatory rules calling for a closed or Guild shop in all contracts with newspapers was presided over by JamesG Stahlman president of the American Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation It was announced there were 565 delegates present from 11 newspaper organizations Text of the resolution follows The newspaper editors and pub lishers from all sections of the United States individually and thru their cooperative associations listed below are gathered here to take action

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Library of Congress1915

Image 10 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), December 12, 1915

SIXTYFIVE MEN IN CONGRESS HAVE WORKED ON NEWSPAPERS Of These Twelve Are Senators and Fifty three Are Members of the House of Representatives Sixtyflve members of Congress have served as newspaper men in one ca pacity or another according to the Congressional Directory Of these twelve are senators and fiftythree are members of the House Their newspaper jobs have ranged from typesetter to editor and owner Senator Henry F Ashurst of Arizona served as a reporter on a Williams Arizona newspaper Ever is A Hayes of the eighth Cal ifornia district with his brother is publisher of the San Jose Daily Morn ing Mercury and Herald and Charles H Randall the new member from the ninth district was a newspaper editor and publisher Edward Keating of the third Colo rado district started in at the age of fourteen as copyholder in a proofroom He served on Denver newspapers for twenty years as reporter city editor and managing editor In 1912 he pur chased the Pueblo Leader P Oakey Davis of the first Connecticut district for four years was connected with the Hartford Courant Senator James H Brady of Idaho acknowledges that he edited a paper for two years Clyde H

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Library of Congress1939

Image 15 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 5, 1939

Partisan Newspaper Is Out of Date Says Editorial Expert Veteran 83 Looks Back On 60 Years Work On One Daily By the Associated Press LOUISVILLE Ky Feb 4Har rison Robertson 60 years on one newspaper said today the 1939 model newspaper must cut loose from partisan ties to succeed Mr Robertson a frail man of 83 With eyes bright as a cub reporters leaned back in a worn swivel chair and declared emphatically The independent newspaper now adavs gets the respect of the people The day of the partisan paper is over You cant run a paper suc cessfully now as an organ of a party or faction Mr Robertson editor of the Louis ville Courier Journal started on January 17 his 61st year as an em ploye ol tne newspaper maae lamuus bv Henry Watterson The veteran editorial writer liter ally crashed his way into newspaper work Breaks Wattersons Door On his first day on the Courier Journel Mr Robertson related Mr Watterson hired him at 10 a week then took him out and introduced him to the managing editor A few minutes later I returned to Mr Wattersons office to get my hat and coat he said Mr

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Library of Congress1917

Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), June 27, 1917, (Editorial Page)

fWPt EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES JUNE 27 19T7 WASHINGTON EDGAIt D SHAW Publisher Entered m econd tlui matter at the Postofflce at Washington PiQ Published Every Evening Including Sundays By the Washington Times Company Munsey Building Pennsylvania Ave Ona Year Including Sundays J3B0 Sir Months J17S Three Months SOc WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 1917 What Is a Good Newspaper Here Is One Answer There Are Forty Others The ablest editor in the United States said There are forty ways of making a good and successful newspaper All I ask is tlrat you adopt and follow ONE of the forty ways Dont try to work forty ways at once A reader asks this newspaper to define GOOD newspaper work Here is one of forty possible definitions A good newspaper attends first to the most im portant work at hand Today that work consists in earnest support of those that must get us honorably out of this war Earnest support and friendly constructive criticism but earnest SUPPORT above all and the less criticism the better A good newspaper feels toward its readers the great body of them not a chosen few who can repay favors as an honest lawyer feels toward

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Library of Congress1880

Image 2 of The river press (Fort Benton, Mont.), November 10, 1880

THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERI A Lecture on its Use and MisuseIts Ex istence as an Educating Factor Defined The American newspaper is the best in dex of American life and the fairest represen tative of the people Whoever would form a correct estimate of the spirit genuis and life of Americans must study the newspapers Our virtues our vices our thoughts and opinions our politics our trade our push and pride our weakness strength creeds customs and civilization all are imagined in our periodical publications The American newspaper has no rival on earth in the volume and variety of its issues More than 10000 papers appear each week from our newspaper press More than 1000000000 copies are circulated annually They cover the whole field of human thought and interests Every department of business manufacture and trade has its advertiser Schools scientific moral educational religious political and charitable societies and organizations publish newspapers devoted to their interests and filled with their ideas But stating the num ber of newspapers does not tell the whole story One must note well THE GREAT ARMY OF WRITERS who help to fill their columns the editors assistants reporters correspondents critics and contributors of all kinds which

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of Okolona messenger (Okolona, Miss.), March 18, 1903

THE DUTY OP A NEWSPAPER Unfavorable criticisms of news papers are frequently made on the ground that they misrepresent things That is true They Ire qnently do But the newspaper which is trying faithfully to give the reading public the news makes remarkably few mistakes when it is considered how many state ments it is called upon to make in eachissue Those who are in the habit of charging inaccuracy in newspapers should remember two things First the average news paper makes certainly not less than ten thousand statements a year If none of these were er roneous or slightly misleading it would be astounding And sec ondly it is customary for one mis take in a newspaper to provoke more criticism than the nine thousand ninehundred and nine tynine correct statements And this very fact is much in the newspapers favor If the mis takes were so common they would not excite so much comment The record for accuracy and truth as held by a standard newspaper of good repute and enjoying a wide circulation among aa intelligent clientalle would put to blush any stump speaker platform lecturer or magazine lecturer in the land We once knew of a

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Library of Congress1958

Image 2 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 29, 1958

She Sidney Sderafhd A CORPORATION LEO N SCHWARTZ Mgr OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF RICHLAND COUNTY MONTANA nintii HATiON Ai OITOIIAI Entered at the Postoffice at Sidney Montana as Second Class Matter March 13 1908 under the Act of March 3 1ST9 Published Every WedoesfUy at Sidney Richland County Montana SUBSCRIPTION RATES RichlandMcKencie Counties 399 a year 89 a year in Montana 400 a year Mftnide Meotana Single Cepies 19c Foreign Countries 599 Advertisers Help It is not often that we ask favors of our readers but heres one you can do for us Every time you buy from an advertiser in the Sidney Herald mention the fact that you saw the article purchased advertised in this newspaper As most readers understand the income of a newspaper is twofold from the subscribers and from the advertisers Naturally the way to satisfy readers is to publish as fine newspaper as possible and the extent of any newspapers news coverage depends to a large degree upon the amount of advertising carried The advertiser who buys space in a newspaper for the purpose of promoting his sales will be more inclined to con tinue his advertising if he gets definite proof that it brings results

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Library of Congress1961

Image 2 of The Sidney herald (Sidney, Mont.), October 18, 1961

She Sid neu Sderuid V A CORPORATION LEO N SCHWARTZ EdltorPublisliei OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF RICHLAND COUNTY MONTANA t W STATE PRESS NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASpC0TI S N AFFILIATE MEMBFR Entered at the Postoffice at Sidney Montana as Second Class Matter March 13 1908 under the Act of March 3 1879 Published Every Wednesday at Sidney Richland County Montana SUBSCRIPTION RATES RichlandMcKenzie Counties 300 a year 350 a year in Montana 400 a year outside Montana Single Copies 10c Foreign Countries 500 NEWSPAPER WEEK OCTOBER 1522 Your Newspaper Heritage of Truth Frontier of Free dom is the theme this week as it is Annual Newspaper Week October 1522 How do you measure your home town newspaper Is it by the number of errors you find the number of stories that please just you the ease of reading by good printing the advertisements or do you just like or dislike your home town newspaper for no particular reason There are many good reasons for liking your home town paper And whether you think it is good or not your paper will never have the chance to improve if the people and the merchants fail to understand that every issue is printed with utmost

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