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1Ne :ivexe7tgttid~..a. copy- of an old
•. paper. tho_;Qb~er_ tkay which: proved
- to-be t1Ye forerutiner'of The•1lmeri=
caa .of; kgday. ' It Would appear-chat
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' City Cau~fl;ttgt.e$~F11 u'orntr~~QEz- ,
can: • The+'cogq.:we_ }i~v'~i5`~olixrite, ,
No. 38 and 3s;datod Janupsy 7, 1927.
=-,-TherE 1s_ a lot o~ interesting stories
. ' 3n the little sheet, some telling -oE
the great growth of the city- in the
past year and prophesying great
things for tiie future. It was a4 just ,
this 6ime that the proprietor of the
.paper deciderts-anov$--his -pr-iniittt; ;
establishment to Ashland, where '
he hoped ao oger~ate a .two-town
newspaper. Of course he soon went ~
broke aild the paper. was , finally
sold to' the Ashland Tidings and
y closed-up.
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Then in•1928 John SHeley, then a~,
_. real. __estt~#g.~~ler here, decided the
Scent over to- Jacksonville .and ,
~o~gh-t -3 T1ttY~plmst.-consisting n€~,
". an anCjent. newspaper press and a .
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few ca~a~<<'~f-~.~yp~ {~.~nd resurrected .
The American e writer took .
dyer. its managerr~nt in the tali ~f ,
.1931 and. at that .`Llrne there wasn't ,
much-- evidence - o€ -the -prospei:}
our predecessor had predicted. "ln ~
fact the little village was about as ~
dead, as -anyone could a°ish. ~ he
-Great Depression was -getting in .
- full swing' and jobs were. scarce as
hems toeth. People were losing
their-homes by mortgages- and even
the Loral bank .was over-stretching.
.. its credit apd finally had to close its.
doors. It wasn't a ,very cheering ~
prospect for an elderly feller star:- ~
a ing a new business. B t with the '
aid of Providence and~he Conlin- t
ental Congress. as .the feller sait3,, ~
we are still going strong' and doing '
more .business iri a week than u•e ~ `
djd.,tl~pflt~fn a month. `
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