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There is no u-shaped desk, but two men are looking over bits ol per, and one is pounding a typewriter, even as in the Manhattan news room.
To get to the, composing room this time, we only have to pass through one door. And the press is just across a small passageway.
Here too, metal is being placed in forms. And before long this press begins, and, while operating on a smaller scale, still folds ana cuts the rolls of paper passing through. We take one of these products too. It's a little smaller, but there’s still a lot of news in it. And this particular paper has one thing the New York paper doesnjt have—news about the people in this particular mid western town.
Sorry to rush you, but w® have another visit to make, and it’s a long way—the west coast.
But, here we are, before you ' know it. This building is the smallest yet, and, on first glance, there hardly seems to be anyone around. But what’s this? Ah, someone is coming in. Seems to.be in an awful hurry.
Must be a reporter, he s writing • story now. But what's this? He just got up to talk to a man who . cm* in about advertising. VersaT tile fellow. ,
Where is he going now? Ah, the composing room, to have his copy set, no doubt. No? My gosh, he s
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