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Jack, remember how you commented on the tale about a preacher who was a printer? You said he was one or the other, but not both. Your inference was that a preacher’s vocabulary would not be adequate for the print shop and the vagaries of machinery.
Up in a town called Carmel, New York, there’s a minister whose initials are H. P. Called by the neighborhood as “Old Horsepower," he has taken on the publication of the county weekly in addition to his preaching duties.
The preacher-editor is a Virginian, born in Abingdon. He had been a printer’s devil on the Salem (Va.) Times Register when he was a lad of 12.
Jackie, try to reverse your former opinion, if you find it won’t go too much against your conscience. This preacher-editor sounds like a right kind of guy. He’s graduated from University of Richmond and Princeton, and he was in the infantry in World War I and an Army Chaplain in World War II.
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Since the folks in the county seat are getting their tongues and tempers whetted for the coming election, it can be hoped they can keep a sense of humor handy. Look what happened oyt in Illinois to the presidential hopefuls. Murphysboro, 111. — A comedy of errors involving candidates for the presidential nomination all but paralyzed this farmer’s shopping center this afternoon. Murphysboro, population 8,976, is the Jackson county seat. Senator Robert A. Taft’s caravan arrived in the town square simultaneously with that of Harold Stassen, moving in the opposite direction. Traffic became snarled and while the police attempted to untangle it, Mr. Taft entered the Jackson County Courthouse to make a speech to 300 persons, while across the street Mr. Stassen climbed a flight of stairs to
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