Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Post has Hearst's International News Service. It prints no race results, competes with the News-Sun for moral support among Waukegan townsfolk by publishing an occasional editorial that ends: "ABOLISH THE RACE TRACKS!" And it gives plenty of space to churches, clubs, society, staff pictures of local bigwigs...
...perjury, because he testified that none of Billy Skidmore's halls was used for gambling, although he had managed the properties and collected rentals. But Publisher Goldstein denied Frank Just's story, denied any gamblers were interested in his paper, insisted that he had started the Post because with his two sons (graduates of a school of journalism) he had always been interested in the newspaper business...
Meanwhile Waukegan businessmen shunned the Post, gave their advertising as usual to Frank Just. But the Post continued publishing...
...Another illustrious tough guy who got a hand in Philadelphia last week was Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57). While scamping his studies as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, he came down with rheumatic fever, which left him with a bad heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been missing...
Although the British post office limits parcels to 15 Ibs., he was delivered four days later under a service "by which a person may be conducted by express messenger to an address or place of interest." Charge: sixpence a mile, plus fare...