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Veteran Newspaper Man
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the Birmingham Age-Herald. I was managing editor of the Age-Herald for
two years, was one of the promoters of the Birmingham Ledger and for a
time its general manager and associate editor. Since then I have spent
my time and efforts on just two papers, the Marion Standard and the Sylacauga
News.

"I came to Sylacauga to run the News for Victor May who was seeing
service in the World War in 1918. Two weeks after I came, he was killed.
I bought the paper. At that time it had a circulation of five hundred.
Now its circulation is twenty-four hundred. The News has grown as the
town of Sylacauga has grown. I feel as if the paper is almost a part of
me. I have spent my maturer years with it and have given it the "best that
my training and experience as a newspaper man can give."

1/23/39
S.J.

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