How To Write Special Feature Articles eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 504 pages of information about How To Write Special Feature Articles.

How To Write Special Feature Articles eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 504 pages of information about How To Write Special Feature Articles.
A word with you, Mr. Would-Be-Slacker.  If you ’re thinking of trying to dodge the selective draft by pretending physical disability when you get before the local exemption board, here’s a bit of advice:  Don’t.  Since you are Mr. Would-Be-Slacker there is no use preaching patriotism to you.  But here is something that will influence you:  If you try to dodge the draft and are caught, there is a heavy penalty, both fine and imprisonment; and you’re almost sure to get caught.

    (2)

    (American Magazine)

    THE GENERAL MANAGER OF COWBELL “HOLLER”

    BY BRUCE BARTON

You would never in the world find Cowbell “Holler” alone, so I will tell you how to get there.  You come over the Big Hill pike until you reach West Pinnacle.  It was from the peak of West Pinnacle that Daniel Boone first looked out over the blue grass region of Kentucky.  You follow the pike around the base of the Pinnacle, and there you are, right in the heart of Cowbell “Holler,” and only two pastures and a creek away from Miss Adelia Fox’s rural social settlement—­the first of its kind, so far as I know, in America.

    (3)

    (Chicago Tribune)

    THE ROAD TO RETAIL SUCCESS

    BY BENJAMIN H. JEFFERSON

You all know the retail druggist who has worked fifteen or sixteen hours a day all his life, and now, as an old man, is forced to discharge his only clerk.  You all know the grocer who has changed from one store to another and another, and who finally turns up as a collector for your milkman.  You all know the hard working milliner and, perhaps, have followed her career until she was lost to sight amid sickness and distress.  You all have friends among stationers and newsdealers.  You have seen them labor day in and day out, from early morning until late at night; and have observed with sorrow the small fruits of their many years of toil.

    Why did they fail?

    (4)

    (Illustrated Sunday Magazine)

    THE MAN WHO PUT THE “PEP” IN PRINTING

    Look at your watch.

    How long is a second?  Gone as you look at the tiny hand, isn’t it? 
    Yet within that one second it is possible to print, cut, fold and
    stack sixteen and two-thirds newspapers!

Watch the second hand make one revolution—­a minute.  Within that minute it is possible to print, cut, fold and stack in neat piles one thousand big newspapers!  To do that is putting “pep” in printing, and Henry A. Wise Wood is the man who did it.

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