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Image 2 of The river press (Fort Benton, Mont.), January 5, 1881

MUTANTER Cool and palmshaded from the torrid heat The young brown tenor puts his singing by And sets the twin pipe to his lips to try Some air of bulrushglooms where lovers meet 0 swart musician time and fame are fleet Brief all delight and youths feet fain to fly Pipe on in peace Tomorrow must we die What matter in our life today be sweet Soon soon the silver paper reeds that sigh Along the Sacred River will repeat The echo of the darksoled bearers feet Who carry you with wailing where must lie Your swathed and withere body by and by In perfumed darknesswith the grains of wheat THE NEWSPAPER The Editors Sanctum Fits t After the Church Says The Rev Robt Uollyer The steam engine does no days work so marvelous in its whole result as that which is done by the steam printing press the wire flashes no such weight of interest the railroad carries no such freight as the last edition while the artist has no such opening as this that transfers work at once to the block and then sends the picture flying into the hearts and brains of a million men As the

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Image 4 of The Bossier banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.), July 12, 1888

TAL AGES SERMON A Discourse on the Palpit and Press as Allies The Power of the Press for Good or Evil The Folly of Antagonizing ItA Force that Should be Culti vated and Promoted Rev T DeWitt Talmage preached a sermon in Brooklyn Tabernacle on the Pulpit and Press Made Allies taking for his text The children of this world are in their gener ation wiser than the children of light Luke xvi 8 He said Sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency and sanctified laziness are here reVuked by Christ He says world lings a wider awake for opportunities than are Christians Men of the world grab occasions while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift by unimproved This is the meaning of our Lord when He Bays f The children of this world are in their genera tion wiser than the children of light A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular printing press The oppor tunity is open and has for some time been open but the ecclesiastical courts and the churches and the ministers of re ligion are for the most part

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Image 8 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), November 24, 1921

I yj TUI I I I 3 öl W Copyright 1921 by he Bell Synchcatejnc SYNOPSIS PART ONE Proud possessor of a printing press and equipment the gift of Uncle Joseph his nephew Herbert llllngsworth Atwa ter Jr aged thirteen the fortunate youth with his chum Henry Rooter about the same age begins the publica tion of a fulliledged newspaper the North Knd Dally Oriole Herberts small cousin Florence Atwater being barred from any kind of participation in the enter prise on account of her Intense and nat ural feminine desire to boss Is frankly annoyed and not at all backward In say ing so However a poem she has writ ten is accepted for Insertion In the Oriole on a strictly commercial basiscash In advance Tile poem suffers somewhat from the inexperience of the youthful publishers in the art preservative Her not altogether unreasonable demand for republication of the masterpiece with Its iheauty unmarred are scorned and the break between Miss Atwater and the publishers of the Oriole widens The Sunday following the flrst appear ance of the Oriole Florences particular Chum Patty Fairchild pays her a visit They are joined despite Miss Atwaters openly expressed disapproval by Master

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Image 10 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), December 15, 1921, (Special Holiday Edition---1921)

IJ MCI 0 ft m TÏTÏ I lid V 7 v I A Ts Y 7 W ml Copyright 1921 by the Bell StjnchcateInc SYNOPSIS PART ONE Proud possessor of a printing press and equipment the gift of Uncle Joseph to his nephew Herbert Illingsworth Atwa ter Jr aged thirteen the youth with his chum Henry about tbe same age begins the publica tion of a fullfledged newspaper the North End Daily Oriole Herberts small cousin Florence Atwater being barred from any kind of participation in the enter prise on account of her intense and nat ural feminine desire to boss is frankly annoyed and not at all backward in say ing so However a poem she has writ ten Is accepted for Insertion in the Oriole on a strictly commercial basiscash in advance The poem suffers somewhat from the inexperience of tbe youthful publishers in the art preservative Her not altogether unreasonable demand for republication of the masterpiece with its ibeauty unmarred are scorned and the break between Miss Atwater and the publishers of the Oriole widens The Sunday following the first appear ance of the Oriole Florences particular chum Patty Fairchild pays her a visit They are Joined

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Image 7 of Vernon Parish Democrat (Leesville, La.), December 8, 1921

I 2 J am y opyright 1921 by the Ball SyndicateInc THE ORGAN EST SynopsisProud possessor of a printing press and equipment the gift of Uncle Joseph to his nephew Herbert Illingsworth Atwater Jr aged thirteen the fortunate youth with his chum Henry Rooter about the same age begins the publication of a fullfledged news paper the North End Dally Ori ole Herberts small cousin Flor ence Atwater being barred from any kind of participation in the enterprise on account of her In tense and natural feminine desire to boss Is frankly annoyed and not at all backward in saying so PART IContinued 2 It was in a sense an original poem though like the greaier number of all literary offerings it was so strongly Inspirational that the source of Its Inspiration might easily become mani fest to a coldblooded reader Never theless to the poetess herself as she explained later in good faith the Tfords Just seemed to come to herdoubtless with either genius or some form of miracle involved for sources of in spiration are seldom recognized by in spired writers themselves She had not long ago been party to a musical Sunday afternoon at her greatuncle Joseph

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Image 43 of The Butte daily miner (Butte, Mont.), January 1, 1886, (THE DAILY MINER. NEW YEAR'S EDITION)

Journals and Journalists MmpKtUa of ths Hold of Hsws pspstdon in Xontan Territory An Intoroutms Sketch of the Terri torial Journale Deed end Alive A Paper Read by John Bnnell Wilson at the Urt Meeting of the Montana Fron AMoclatlnn At the last meeting ol the Montana Press association held in Butte in August 1885 Mr John Russel Wilson editor of the Biloii Tribune who hint at the previous meeting been chosen lor that purpose read an interesting paperon MontauoJournal1 ism So much honest labor whs put into j this paper by the author and there is in it so much of permanent value that it is in corporated in this work for permanent preservation In preparing this historical iaper the writer j avoids prefatory remarks and proceeds to dc j scribe THE FIRST IRINTINO OFFICE IN MONTANA In compiling n History of Montunu Journal ism care has been taken to establish the dates and the parties who first brought printing ma terial outflts of presses und types into the Terri tory It is proper to mention these small print ing ofliees although no regular editions of papers were issued by the parties owning the outflts In September 1868 D

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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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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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Image 10 of Great Falls daily tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), September 5, 1919

Of MONTANA GAM HERE FOR ANNUAL MEETING Friday Program Morning Session Convening at 9 0 Address of welcome Mayor L Newman Kesponse by J D Scanlan president Press Association mg of minutes of previous meeting appointing of com mitteesmembership auditing resolutions Keport of secretary S E Peterson Keport of treasurer H B Mitchell Presidents annual address J D Scanlan h e School of Journalism and ths War Dean A L Stone Half a Century at the Bat eu iiôi Sutherlin Rocky Mountain Husbandman bnould Subscriptions be Raised Discussion Le n ShaW Billings G 26 6 The North Dakota Printing Law Hon F E Packard Asst Attorney General of North Dakota Afternoon Session Convening at 130 Chasing Them With a Plying Machine ut 7 VA T Hockin g Glasgow Courier rJeneiits of Standard Job Selling Price Lists for Mon tana Will A Campbell Helena Independent Discussion Z e Press Governor Sam V Stewart The Troubles of a Weekly Output miri Jerome Williams Big Timber Pioneer What a Returned Soldier Did to Me C S Hanna Simms Enterprise Loyalty of the Montana Press J M Kennedy Libby J Pluvius Puts One Over on RecordHerald Manager Well Ill be shouted Riefenrath general manager

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Image 3 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), November 28, 1892

FIRED SANS CEREMONY One of the Peculiar Phases of Jour nalistic Life No Claw of Worker Treated with as Lit tie Regard as Washington Corre spondents The Tyranny of Managing Editors Special Washington Letterl Margherita Arlina Hamm in a recent article printed in the Journalist com mented very truthfully upon the treat ment which newspaper workers usual ly receive from the managing editors of great daily papers Among other things she said that the average newspaper re porter and society writer as well as the editorial writer were regarded by the managing editor and the business de partment of the paper as the farmer re gards his horses and cattle As long as they are fast upon the track and able to win money for their owners or as long as they are good hardworking plodders along the field they receive compensation sufficient to keep their souls and bodies together and to dress themselves sufficiently well to appear to advantage in the company in which they must necessarily go according to the assignments given them by the managing editor But when they cease to be ol nrstciass value weir salaries are reduced or else they are immediately discharged without having

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Image 4 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), November 25, 1943

VOLUME XVIII 1 DUMBER XXXIX Ilie Camas Hot Springs Exchange Edna B Gannaway Editor owner and Publisher A weekly newspaper published every Thursday at Camas Montana Entered at the Post Office of Hot Springe under the Act of Congress HKyiCTORY JKM BUY OHM UNITBD DTATBS iWAR H AND stamps March 31879 Subscription 1 year 200 Six Months 125 Official Paper of Sanders County Member es the National Editorial MONTANAS OLDEST PAPER STOPS ITS PRESSES We take the following from the Sanders County Ledger W G Dun lap publisher The November 5 issue of the Madisonian published at Virginia City carried its wn obituary no tice The Madisonian Montanas oldest weekly newspaper has at last been terminated and merged with the Forum of Sheridan and the V irginia City plant will be clos ed and the paper printed at Sheri dan although the Forum will now carry the old Madisonian masthead to perpetuate its famous tradition ary name The Publisher Alathea Castle Andrews inherited the paper from her father but at last was forced to close cut due he drastic 1 help and business restrictions of war time necessity which are being imposed everywhere upon the rural press Normally the Madisonian

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Image 3 of The producers news (Plentywood, Mont.), June 21, 1918

10 o thcr y EM owing are the reprints of the nt articles conce ing the printing appearing In the t papers published througa eridan county reading thebe articles you can for yourself whether the Pro News indulged in any false as alleged by the subsidised of the comiiasioners of this also repiroduce the article ap in the Pioneer Press in it tries to defend this high Idup of the county treasury the same time tries to di ntion from its own duplicity disgraceful frameup by a ri and personal attack on the f the Producers News here the editor of this pa ts to announce that this pa own by the farmers of this who dictate its policy The is a hired man hired and the farmers subsidized organ says that ducers News was the only r to protest against the f the peoples money May the only newspaper to pro wever there are a number tions issued in this county e kickedand kicked hard riminal appropriation of the money ng to the limited circu the Pioneer Press and wish t the voters of the county opportunity to read the ri rot that the gang organ y in trying

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Image 3 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), March 4, 1924

The True Story of Woodrow Wilson By DAVID LAWRENCE CHAPTER IX The Private Life of Woodrow Wilson and the Whispering Campaign Os no phase of Woodrow Wilsons life was there less actual knowledge and at the same time more mlsrepre i sentatlon than the personal side The true story has never appeared In print largely because there never was an occasion to take public notice of that which originated in partisan politics Almost from the beginning of his political career Mr Wilson could not bring himself to believe that what he did in the privacy of his home what the members of his family did whom he entertained and whom he did not was of any business to the newspapers or the public On more than one occasion he exhibited indig nation over the inquiries of the press relative to his personal plans from day to dayhe never did become ac customed to the fact that Just as the secret service men were constantly in the company of a President of the United States so also the repre sentatives of the large press associa tions must keep their eyes on their President or at least know where he is every

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Image 10 of Montana labor news (Butte, Mont.), August 31, 1933, (LABOR DAY EDITION)

Howard Hits Child Labor in News Code Continued from Page One the rights of the employes or their representatives Opposed the Code Originally The printing trades unions have enjoyed harmonious relations with the Daily Newspaper Publishers for more than 30 years In all that period there has been but few major con flicts When the NIRA was adopted an invitation was extended to the rep resentatives of the American News paper Publishers Association to enter into conferences for the purpose of formulating a code by mutual agree ment This invitation was not ac cepted and the spurious plea was made that to apply a code to the newspapers would interfere with the freedom of the press It was apparent the newspaper publishers intended to use their great influence to escape rules and regula tions which were to be applied to every other industry in the nation Exemption was to be secured if pos sible and if not exempted the attitude of the publishers was one of silent re sistance Insincere Support of NRA When the President endeavored to lift the country out of the depression by evolving the individual agreement plan through which employers could Safeway Stores MACMARR Price Effective

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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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Image 13 of The commonwealth (Greenwood, Miss.), December 17, 1909, (HOLIDAY EDITION, SECTION FOUR)

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMMONWEALTH Being handicapped by the seemingly impossible improbability of having oth era bring as into print we deem it not inappropriate and not an unpardonable imposition to exercise oar high pre rogative and relieve oar systems of a little history and dope that may per haps be of little interest to those inter ested in The Commonwealth and its management The Commonwealth is now enjoying its fourteenth year of newspaper life After having been established and con ducted by former Governor Jas K Vardaman for a number of years Hon F R Birdsall of Yazoo City pur chased the office and successfully ed ited same for three years Nearly five years ago the present management came into possession of the paper The Commonwealth now owns its home on Market street and is here to stay The Commonwealth greets its readers today with as comprehensive an edition of a newspaper as ever issued from a Green wood press and in that affirms Its primacy corresponding to the primacy of the city that it represents and re flects Iu rejecting this special edi tion we called it our Holiday Edition which title has been abundantly jus tified

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