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...issue of TIME, the reverse of this practice occurred in 1913, when the headstone of the grave of General Smith D. Atkins, for nearly half a century editor of the Freeport, Ill. Journal, was an imposing stone upon which the first forms composed by the General as an apprentice printer were imposed. At the request of the Editor and Publisher, I furnished a photograph of this head stone, showing the inscription, which was published in that magazine. In the comment, it was stated that the only other similar use was in the case of a brother of William Dean Howells...
...wire department of Laidlaw & Co. One of his duties was to answer questions concerning companies, and for this purpose he kept a scrapbook. In 1906 he thought of having pertinent facts on 100 leading corporations printed on cards which could be revised from time to time. He persuaded a printer to take a chance, used a bellboy at his hotel to distribute the cards. A. M. Kidder & Co. was the first firm to take advantage of his $60-a-year service. Soon J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., National City Bank were among the customers. Within two years Blake...
...Bishop Coadjutor James Matthew Maxon of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Tennessee, went on trial in Manhattan for drunkenly attempting, while a student last year at the Columbia University School of Journalism, to attack his landlady, one Rose Hickey, 53, and for slaying with a chair Printer David Paynter, 73, another boarder, who rushed to the landlady's assistance...
...profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull." With the backing of a small printer, the magazine went like wildfire. Ex-soldiers, salesmen, sporting men, bellhops and curious schoolboys bought Whiz Bang. The price-25?-soon was bringing Captain Billy $35,000 to $40,000 a month. Whiz Bang never carried advertising but by 1923 it was said to have reached a circulation...
...pointed out last year, when the space for signature omitted on the Student Council ballots was excused as a typographical error or printer's mistake, efficient handling of the elections would have precluded this. In addition it might be asked why, if balloting started on Wednesday, the change in counting methods was decided upon on Thursday? And even further, why was it that at noon yesterday the notice remained unchanged on the pictures of the nominees, was not scratched out on the ballots, and why the change was not announced to the voters by the men stationed at the booths...