Chapter I: Foreword

The technical details of the printing business, found here and there in this story, might at first thought appear too abstruse for young people to read, or not sufficiently understandable by the majority. But the truth is that nowadays, in every country town, the high schools publish a school paper, and the boys and girls come to the printing offices, the girls with the copy that they have written for their department in the paper, and the boys to make up the forms. Sometimes the girls do likewise, and they learn quite a great deal about printing and the newspaper business. They talk it so much that the children in the different grades become impregnated by the printing and publishing aroma.

This story of a young man who started and ran a country newspaper, even though there is a good deal of technical explanation about the printing, will, I believe, be well received by the majority of the young people, and its technical details will not be considered too obscure nor too dry for them to read.

STEPHEN A. D. COX.

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This book is published as an inspiration
to all ambitious American boys seeking to
establish themselves in a business career

CONTENTS

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I THROWN ON HIS OWN RESOURCES 15

II READY FOR BUSINESS 29

III THE OUTLOOK ENCOURAGING 50

IV MAKING GOOD PROGRESS 64

V A PLEASANT SUNDAY 77

VI BUSY DAYS 89

VII THE COALVILLE NEWS, Vol. I, No. I 111

VIII THE MASS MEETING 136

IX THE MINE DISASTER 152

X PLEASED AND ENCOURAGED 169

XI FIRE 183

XII AT THE END OF A YEAR 197

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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On the edge of Coalville 4

The Coalville News just off the press 14

The old Army press 23

Carried the table down the street 43

“Father told me to invite you to take dinner with us” 83

“Then look out for yourself, young man” 107

“The Coalville News is going to be a success” 179

HARRY’S NEWSPAPER

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THE YOUNG PUBLISHER