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Excerpt from The Sazerac Lying Club: A Nevada Book
In the year 1873, I was employed in an editorial capacity on a small daily paper, the reese river reveille, published in the town of Austin, State of Nevada. This was a sort of general utility position, com prising all the branches oi interior journalism, from Writing an advertise ment about a lost dog up to heavy dissertations on leading topics. But the main object was to get items of local news.
Austin is a small, interior mining town, ninety miles, by a rough road, from the Central Pacific Railroad; having its communication with the outer world carried on by means of mud-wagons, called by courtesy stages; and, it can readily be conceived, a quiet place, in which anything of a start ling nature in the line of news seldom transpires.
There was no difficulty about the leaders or other editorial matter; a pair of sharp shears, a raid on the exchanges, and texts from the tele graphic news daily supplied to the paper, would readily furnish them; but to make up respectable local columns was a constant strain on the mental capacity and legs of the writer, and he had almost said, on the imagin ation, but a strict moral training in early life, etc., caused him to con fine himself strictly to facts.
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In the year 1873, I was employed in an editorial capacity on a small daily paper, the reese river reveille, published in the town of Austin, State of Nevada. This was a sort of general utility position, com prising all the branches oi interior journalism, from Writing an advertise ment about a lost dog up to heavy dissertations on leading topics. But the main object was to get items of local news.
Austin is a small, interior mining town, ninety miles, by a rough road, from the Central Pacific Railroad; having its communication with the outer world carried on by means of mud-wagons, called by courtesy stages; and, it can readily be conceived, a quiet place, in which anything of a start ling nature in the line of news seldom transpires.
There was no difficulty about the leaders or other editorial matter; a pair of sharp shears, a raid on the exchanges, and texts from the tele graphic news daily supplied to the paper, would readily furnish them; but to make up respectable local columns was a constant strain on the mental capacity and legs of the writer, and he had almost said, on the imagin ation, but a strict moral training in early life, etc., caused him to con fine himself strictly to facts.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Fred H. Hart
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ISBN - 9780260953384
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 243
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