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...imagine Horace Greeley's snort or Charles Dana's explosion had the printer's devil come to their elbow suggesting that there was too much copy to fill their papers, that their editorials had best be cast out. They would have shouted: "Throw away the rest and save the editorials!" They were journalists conducting great journals. Today, we have newspapers run by newspapermen...
...When I left grammer school, I planned to learn the printer's trade," he began. "I thought my lameness would interfere least with this occupation. All summer I looked for a job, but none turned up. So, when the schools opened in the fall, I drifted into high school, thinking that I could find a job as well while in school as out. Two years passed and I was still looking for that chance to learn the printer's trade...
...idea of being a printer was still with me, and when one day I learned that by selling a certain amount of soap, I could earn a small press, I knew that at last the way was open. Within a few hours I had orders for the soap, which amounted to $14, but to my sorrow, it was necessary to delay sending the order several weeks. My folks, however, squeezed this amount from the family income and permitted to send the money with the order. The printing outfit proved to be substantial and with it I managed to earn considerable...
...years ago, in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, there arrived a boy whose Welsh father and Irish-German mother caused him to be called William Dean Howells. The boy played a little, went to school a bit, then learned to sit long hours on a high stool in a printer's shop setting type. When he could, he went home and sat alone "in a windowed nook under the stairs," tirelessly schooling himself in literature, languages, composition. He loved his family with a deep reserve; he guarded his thoughts; he pursued youth's ideal of beauty...
...widower "with eight or ten children," becoming Mother Goose to these and "six or more" children of her own. This ménage readily lent itself to the tale of The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Mother Goose's son-in-law, one T. Fleet, a printer, wrote down the songs he heard her sing, and in 1719 published a book from his own press entitled Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies for Children. *Catharine Smiley Cheatham, of Manhattan, is an interpretative singer a Christian Scientist...