Word: addingly
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...What an Ad...
...Chicago Tribune gloated with a loud goodwill last week that it had caught the scamp who five months ago had used a Tribune want ad with dastardly intent and criminal result...
...Robert Malachi Crowe, lecherous Negro, was the villain. His Tribune want ad called for the services of a nurse. A Ruth Sampson answered the ad, and her he assaulted. Then he disappeared. The attack made an excellent Tribune story; the Negro's arrest would make another. But best for the paper's business office, if he were caught, would be the well-spread cry: The Tribune guarantees the integrity of even its want ads. . . . Truth among the agate lines...
...Robert Malachi Crowe. No doctors had helped, nor any policemen; only a furious Negro friend whose wife Robert Malachi Crowe was blackguardedly courting. Detectives hustled the prisoner to Chicago, where a judge quickly sentenced him to prison. The reporter received a $1,000 bonus and the Tribune the want ad publicity, as the moral approbation, upon which it had calculated...
...builds up his own and so has few spiritual worries. 4. It is a prayerful life and therefore 'his nerves are at rest.' 5. It is independent ; 'one can rise at any hour one pleases,' fix one's own office hours, take days off ad libitum. 6. It is honored; he and his family are respected and deference is paid to his opinions on all sorts of subjects. 7. It is fairly well paid; minimum net salary about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses. 8. It has permanence of tenure; clergymen (Episcopal) need not fear...