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Miss Bowie explained that these earlier Rappahannock weeklies were handspiked using boiler plate. She said that the boiler plate would come in as sheets of paper with national hews and advertising on one side. Then the local paper would add local news and advertising to the other side. The national news was quite a mixture, she explained. “Threeheaded dog found in Arizona and President and Mrs. Cleveland attend meeting in New York,” she said.
She had grown up in Culpeper .'the youngest of five children. An important part of this growing up were the yearly visits during the summer of Cousin Rosalie, a blind hunchback ! ■ with a club foot who read the Bible ; in Braille, in Latin, and in Greek and ; told stories to all the children. When Miss Bowie later studied Latin she found she was reading stories she had heard as a child. “1 never found ; Latin a dead language until I read Horace,” she said.
From an early age she had been interested in journalism and printing, but her parents felt that was not a respectable occupation for a woman. So in college she studied English, history, biology and Latin and prepared to become a teacher.
She taught for eight years, one
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