The Melrose Bell {newspaper launched}

DUGGAN

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 2/4/2005 at 20:19:49

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 5, 1908

The Melrose Bell, launched last week at Melrose, by James Duggan, is a neat
7-column, single sheet paper, full of choice local news, and in his
announcement the editor says: "It will be the intention of the Bell to
confine its efforts almost exclusively to Melrose and her tributory
territory. We shall endeavor to cover the whole of creation."
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Another column of the same date:

The editor of the Melrose Bell is an undertaker. When someone desires a
choice bit of delicate news "kept out of the paper," a request so well
understood by all editors, it will be proper to say: "Just keep that on the
dead, please."
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