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ONE OF THE FIRST GREAT LAKES WIRELESS DAILIES
The edition was limited to fifty copies — the capacity of the hectograph on which it was printed
When does a wireless operator have time to gather and print the news, you are probably asking yourself. That is easy. Since we had the steamship company print the blank forms — with space left for the news and passenger list to be mimeographed in, we had no worry about elaborate printing machinery nor fear of strikes in the composing room. Reporters demanding an unholy increase in pay after making a big news "beat" bothered us not at all. Ours was a close corporation and we two could "point to ourselves with pride" as Editor, Owner, Publisher, etc.
Blithely, I undertook the task of preparing the news and cutting the stencils for the mimeograph machine with our radio typewriter-of-allwork. And during the dull hours of the dog watch, my junior printed our daily masterpiece.
copies of the sheet were waiting the early rising passengers, out for a promenade before breakfast.
However, our first issue did not roll off the press as easily as we had anticipated. The occult ways of a mimeograph were new to us, the paper jammed in the rolls, and the ink got all over the deck of the radio cabin and ruined one rather handsome uniform. I wouldn't have minded that first attempt so much if it hadn't been for a couple of grinning sailors outside our door, intent on superintending our unheard-of operation. After the first couple of issues had been printed and partially sold (they didn't go so well at first), our wirelessjournal ism combine learned several things. First, we needed an advertising department, a sales force, and some interested reporters to scour the ship for news. The passengers were eager enough to help us gather news. My junior and I passed the word to a carefully chosen few on the first trip, and after that it was easy. "Who is that fascinating-looking man?" some one asked me after we had established our paper firmly, by three successive and successful issues. The tip was passed to one of our star reporters, that bobbed-haired girl from Wellesley, I think, and in an hour we had unearthed the winner of a newspaper popularity contest in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Oh, getting the news was easy.
But our "news" did not always prove to be accurate. A man came to the radio office with an item about a birthday party being held in Parlor M for Miss Gumble in celebration of her 2ist birthday. Serenely, we printed it. The next day Miss Gumble descended on the editorial sanctum. Miss Gumble was plainly