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NEWS STORIES TO BE CORRECTED

(The following stories have been prepared to illustrate some of the most usual mistakes in newspaper writing. They may be rewritten or used as exercises in copy-reading. As a class exercise, the student may revise and correct these stories without recopying, just as a copy-reader revises poorly written copy.)

Shortly after 2:30 this morning fire

broke out in a pile of old papers in the

basement of the Harmony Flat building,

at 1356 Congress avenue, a four-story

eight-apartment structure. Two firemen

were killed by a falling wall.

The fire had a good start before the

janitor, Michael Jones, who sleeps in the

basement, awoke. He turned in an alarm

and ran through the halls awakening the

occupants. The people on the two lower

floors escaped in their night clothing by

the stairways, but the fire spread very rap-

idly, the occupants of the upper floors be-

ing forced to flee down the fire escapes in

the rear.

When the firemen put in an appearance,

Mrs. Jeanette Huyler appeared at a third

story window and called for help. An ex-

tension ladder being hoisted, she was res-

cued without difficulty. During the fire

the wall on the east side fell and killed

Fireman John Casey and Jacob Hughes;

Fireman Williams Jacobs was hit on the

head by a brick and seriously injured.

The fire was extinguished before it

spread to an adjoining three-story flat

building on the west.

The firemen in searching the ruins

found the body of a man who was later

identified as Rupert Smithers; he was 70

and occupied a lower flat by himself. The

janitor said that he was deaf and prob-

ably did not hear the warning. The three

dead and injured firemen belong to Hose

Co. No. 24.

Loss $50,000, fully insured.

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The police have arrested John Johnson,

23 years old, 2367 Sixth Street, charged

with murdering Mrs. Laura Buckthorn,

the well-known proprietor of the Duchess

Restaurant, 438 High street. He is now

in the county jail.

Mrs. Buckthorn was sixty years old and

the widow of one of the oldest settlers in

the city.

She lived in her small cottage at 2367

Sixth Street and supported herself by

means of the restaurant. John Johnson, a

street car motorman occupied a room in

her cottage. Mrs. Buckthorn was found

dead in her bed, in a pool of blood, with

two bullet holes in her head this morning.

Mrs. Grady, the restaurant cook said, "I

became alarmed when Mrs. Buckthorn did

not appear as usual at the restaurant this

morning and went to her home to find

her."

Inquiry showed that Mrs. Buckthorn

had drawn $250 from the First National

Bank yesterday and her daughter, Mrs.

J. D. Jackson, 1548 Sixth Street, says that

her mother often kept such sums of money

at home under the mattress of her bed.

Mrs. Jackson also says that she often

warned her mother against such habits.

The money was not under the mattress

this morning.

Further inquiry showed that John Johnson

did not appear for work as usual this

morning and was later found by Police-

man Patrick O'Hara in the railroad yards.

He had with him $223.67 and a ticket to

New York. He was known to be hard up

but refused to account for the money and

was given a berth in the county jail.

Samuel Benson, cashier of the First Na-

tional, is sure that the two 100-dollar

bills which were found on Johnson are the

same bills that he gave to Mrs. Buckthorn

yesterday afternoon. Johnson will be

given a hearing to-morrow but it is al-

ready considered certain that he is the

guilty party, the evidence being so strong.

(This story may be rewritten for local use and for a dispatch.)

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III

Sparks, resulting from the grounding

of an electric wire, ignited a bucket of gas-

olene and fired the shop of the G. W.

Smith Motor Co., at 228, 232 West street

last night, five automobiles valued at

$5,800 being destroyed and the building

being damaged to the extent of 6,200 dol-

lars by fire.

The insulation on the wires of an exten-

sion light that Edward Flasch, one of the

repair men was using became cracked, the

wire grounding as a result. The sparks

fell into a bucket of gasolene standing

nearby and in a few minutes the entire

building was ablaze. G. W. Smith, pro-

prietor of the garage, said that he was sit-

ting in his office at the time of the explo-

sion and tried to put the fire out with sand

but could not get the blaze under any con-

trol. He then started to run out as many

machines as possible.

Six cars, valued at $9,000 were saved.

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Madison, September 25th, 1912; With

a loud deafening roar that violently

aroused hundreds from their beds of slum-

ber the monster gas holder occuppying

the southwest corner of South Blount and

Main Streets at the gasplant of the Madi-

son Gas and Electric Company collapsed

very suddenly at 6:sO a. m. this morning,

and now lies partly submerged in water,

a total wreck. The damage will be fully

25,000 dollars, but there will be no inter-

ruption to the service the company's excel-

lent reserve equippment being immediately

brought into action for the emergency.

The cause of the explosion was at first

clothed in deep mystery before the officials

of the company had time to make any in-

vestigation.

However it was definitely ascertained

during the morning when Mr. John W.

Jackson, the secretary and treasurer of the

company, being interviewed by a Daily

News correspondent this morning, stated

that the immense quantities of snow on

the roof of the holder was primarily re-

sponsible. The weight of the snow on

one side of the holder causing it to drop

down broke the wheel and pushed the

holder off the foundation on which it was

standing. There was a momentary blaze

but when the tank settled down into the

reservoir below the fire went out and the

awful peril from this highly dangerous

source was fortunately averted.

As it was dozens of windows at the

planing mill on the opposite side of the

street were all left intact. In fact no dam-

age whatsoever outside of the holder re-

sulted from the unfortunate accident.

Two workmen, Jacob Casey and Nelson

Jones, were unfortunately caught beneath

the wreckage and their bodies were

removed later in the morning by the fire

department. The tank was full when it

collapsed and that it did not scatter de-

struction and take more innocent lives

was one of the fortunate features of the

accident and a great cause for congratula-

tion among the officials of the company

today.

(This story illustrates, among other things, excessive wordiness.)

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After being chased by a young woman

for several blocks, a man who gave his

name as John Weber, was pursued through

a saloon at 11-97th street by Policeman

Arthur Brown and captured on the roof of

a building adjoining the saloon, where the

man had hidden behind a chimney. Weber

was arrested by the policeman and is held

on a charge preferred by Charles Young, a

grocer at 2145 Sixth avenue, of attempt-

ing to rob Young's grocery store.

According to Young, just before he

closed his store for the night last evening,

a young man entered the store and asked

for a pound of butter. "I thought," said

Young, "that the man was just married

and might be a possible new customer. I

started for the back of the store to open a

new tub but just as I turned to go, he hit

me over the head with his cane. The

blow dazed me but I still had sense enough

to grab him by the collar. In the fight we

both fell through the glass door at the

front of the store and the d--n rascal got

away." A young woman, who was pass-

ing the store, seeing the fracas, screamed

and started to run after the young man.

She followed him until he ran into a sa-

loon. Then she ran up to Policeman

Brown, who was standing at the corner of

97th st. and Sixth-av and told him that a

robber had gone into the saloon. The po-

liceman ran into the saloon, but found the

man had left by the back stairs. The po-

liceman followed up two flights of stairs

leading to the roof, on the run, where he

found Weber hiding behind a chimney.

Weber refused to give his address.

After watching until she saw the robber

taken away in the paddy-wagon, the

doughty young woman disappeared. Her

name is unknown.

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A burglar dressed in a Salvation Army

uniform was arrested for attempting to

burglarize Walter White's home, 16 West

62nd st. at about two o'clock last night.

He gave his name as Julius Woll and his

address as 129 23rd ave.

The caretaker at Walter White's said

he was awakened at 1 o'clock by the noise

of bureau drawers opening and he at once

phoned to the station. An officer came

and found the would-be burglar under the

bed. After considerable scuffling the man

was arrested and taken to the station.

The Salvation Army denied any connec-

tion with the prisoner but the landlady at

his address said he had two uniforms and

always wore one. He also carried a

prayer book under his arm whenever he

left his room. She also said that he had

resided in her house for six weeks and

owed four weeks board; also that he had

not been there for two weeks. Inquiry

proved that he was out regularly until

three or four in the morning.

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VII

The wedding of Mr. James Henry,

1463 Seventh Street, and Miss Sarah

Jones, last night at the home of the bride's

parents, at 316 North Johnson Street, was

a brilliant success.

Fifty guests were present and the pres-

ents which they brought all but filled the

parlor. After the ceremony a seven-

course banquet was served until 11:30

o'clock. Miss Sadie Jones rendered "The

Rosary" to the accompaniment of Mr.

John Field.

The bride wore a gown of pink taffeta

and carried sweet peas. The bridesmaid,

Lily Swenk, was dressed in white muslin.

The groom and best man, Mr. Arthur

Howles, wore conventional black. Rev.

Stone of the First M. E. church officiated.

The groom is a promising young law-

yer of this city. His bride is one of the

city's leading young society woman, being

deeply interested in the Womans' Suf-

frage League. There marriage is the re-

sult of a love affair begun at the univer-

sity and is the cause of heart-felt congrat-

ulations from their friends. After a trip

to the Coast, the happy couple will reside

in this city.

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VIII

"What we need in our universities are

sportsmen and not sports," said President

G. E. Gilbert of the Western University,

in the convocation address yesterday aft-

ernoon at four o'clock. "The sportsman

plays for the game, but the sport plays for

the victory."

The President continued, "Before the

battle, and during the battle, the

sportsman can be told from the sport."

It is the actions of the man, he

said, when he is in the test that determine

to which class he belongs. The President

summarized the various college

activities and showed how the two

classes of men appear in each different

activity. And in each, as the President

said, "you can tell the sportsman from the

sport."

"I think that this, the relation between

the sportsman and the sport, is the truest

analogy that can be applied to human life.

Life as a sea, life as a battle, life as a river

in which you must always paddle your

own canoe upstream, life as a hill-climbing

contest--all these analogies have their

weaknesses. But life as a game is a true

analogy."

The President concluded with a glowing

tribute to our university.

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FAULTY LEADS

Evading the police by sliding down a

rope fire escape from a hotel window, Jo-

seph Matus, charged with robbing a lum-

ber jack of $125, escaped the police

temporily only to be arrested an hour

later at the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.

Paul depot.

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Ignited by the breaking of an electric

lamp, a tank of whiskey containing 7,705

gallons exploded and threw Francis Tab,

120 W. 139th St., thirty feet against the

opposite wall at the E. J. Jimkons Com-

pany, 40th street this morning.

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Fire of unknown origin started in the

big lumber yards owned by Charles John-

son at 763 Clinton Avenue, yesterday aft-

ernoon. The yards and one million feet

of lumber were totally destroyed. The

entire district between Mitchell street and

the South River was in danger of total

destruction, according to fire Chief Casey.

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Fire starting in a shed on West street

caused the total destruction of the First

Baptist church and the death of two fire-

men killed by falling walls. Loss $120,-

000.

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Trade war is the only probable result

of the abrogation of the Russian treaty,

was the statement of the Hon. Frank J.

Blank, secretary of State, before a large

and enthusiastic audience at the opera

house last evening. 1800 people packed

the building to overflowing.

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John Jones, a workman, who was

slightly injured when a thousand pounds

of powder exploded and wrecked the

Three-Ex Powder mill last night, was

taken to the St. James hospital.

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The presence of mind and coolness of

Mrs. J. B. Sweeny, 758 North Street,

saved little Johnny Sweeny from death

last night when she caught him by the

coattail and dragged him from beneath

the fender of a street car. Mrs. Sweeny

was dragged 50 feet by the car and taken

to the St. Luke's hospital in an ambulance

that was hastily summoned.

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Falling through a street car window

without receiving so much as a bruise was

the unusual experience of Michael Casey

last night on Main Street. Michael was

not intoxicated--so he says.

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Recklessly driving his automobile over

the curb on Smith street, Mr. James

White, who resides at 764 Smith street,

was fatally hurt by a careless chauffeur,

who was unable to handle his machine

and skidded at the corner near Mr.

White's home.

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At a meeting of the Sane Fourth com-

mittee in the city library last evening

at seven thirty, it was decided that Smith-

town must pass a law forbidding the sale

and use of cannon crackers.

INDEX

Abbreviations, 287. Accidents, 3, 107-109, 291. Accuracy, 145, 168, 209, 212, 290. Addresses, style of, 278, 279, 286, 288, 290, 310. Advertising, 28. Ages, how written, 286. Animal story, 253. Announcements, of engagements, 210; social, 212; stories on, 121; wedding, 209. Article beginning, 43, 80. Assignments, 5, 29. Associated Press, 10. Association, City Press, 10, 193. Athletic news, 219-232, 278, 283.

Baseball stories, 219. Beat, or run, 5, 29. Beat, or scoop, 6, 30. Beginning of lead, 80, 89; with article, 43, 80; with name, 57, 85, 161, 175, 180, 195, 249; with time, 47. Beginnings of court reports, 195-200; of human interest stories, 244-250; of interview stories, 179-187; of speech reports, 151-164. Big story, 5, 31; following-up of, 140; handling of, 116; resulting interviews from, 176, 187. Bills, stories on legislative, 121. Body of the story, 45, 76; discussion of, 91; of court reports, 200; of follow stories, 129; of human interest stories, 250; of interview stories, 185; of news stories, 122; of obituaries, 216; of speech reports, 164. Book, of tips, 3, 295; style, 33, 276-293. Box, 32, 188. Break, to, 31. Brevity, 13, 206, 217, 231. Brief summary athletic story, 222. Bulletins, stories on, 121. Business office, 28.

Capitalization, 276-281. Circulation, 15, 28. City editor, 2, 29. City Press Association, 10, 193. Classes of readers, 16. Clause beginning of lead, 82. Clean copy, 30. Clearness, 91, 104, 123. Clippings, 295. Coherence, 166, 266. Column, 32. Compositor, 30. Compounds and divisions of words, 285. Concreteness, 104, 293. Conferences, reports of, 119. Continued case beginning, 196. Coöperation in newsgathering, 10, 193. Copy, 30; preparation of, 289. Copyreader, 29. Copyreading, 311. Corrected, stories to be, 311. Correspondent, work of, 2; instructions to, 11, 223. Court reporting, 4; discussion of, 192-203, 281. Cover, to, 29. Crime, stories on, 110-116. Criticism, dramatic, 259-275. Crowd, used as feature, 68. Cub reporter, 28. Cynicism, 235, 252.

Datelines, 283, 310. Dates, how written, 278, 286, 290. Day city editor, 29. Dead, lists of, 63. Death element, 3, 22, 61, 73, 107. Decisions, reports of, 119. Definiteness, 104. Desk man, 29. Despatch, 12, 222. Dialogue, use of, 103; in court reports, 200; in human interest stories, 245, 251; rules for, 283. Dictation of stories, 298. Diction, 290-293. Directories, stories on, 121. Distance, effect of, 11, 20. Division of words, 285. Don'ts, in dramatic reporting, 265; in general, 290; in leads, 85-90. Down style, 33. Dramatic reporting, 259-275.

Editing, 30, 144. Editor, 29; day or night city, 2, 29; sporting, 29, 219; state, 2; Sunday, 29; telegraph, 2, 29. Editorial room, 28. Editorial writers, 29. Elections, 3, 277, 281, 288. Emphasis, 102. Engagement announcements, 210. Entertainments, reports of, 210. Exaggeration, 22, 89. Expected news, 3.

Faults in news stories, 75-104. Faulty stories to be corrected, 311. Feature, the, 27, 31, 37, 41, 50, 106-122, 125, 150, 175, 195, 228, 244, 266; crowd as, 68; death as, 61, 73; exaggeration for, 89; fire fighting as, 67; how, 57; in accident stories, 107; in football stories, 219-232; in human interest stories, 233-255; in murder stories, 114; in police stories, 118; in robbery stories, 110; in speech reports, 150; in suicide stories, 115; injuries as, 65; more than one, 70; playing up of, 27, 31; property threatened as, 66; rescues as, 65; unexpected attendant circumstances as, 60; what, 55; when, 54; where, 52; who, 57; why, 51. Feature fire story, 50-74. Feature social story, 213. Feature story, the special, 31, 255. Featureless fire story, 41-49. Figures, news value of, 24; use of, 283, 286, 290. Fine writing, 124, 213, 218, 251. Fire story, 39, 41, 50, 75, 105, 122. Fires, 3, 4, 7, 39, 41, 50, 75, 105, 122. Follow, or follow-up, story, 32; relation of, to court reports, 197; relation of, to interviews, 187; writing of, 125, 130-140. Following up related subjects, 140. Football stories, 219-232. Form of the news story, 34-40. Freak leads in speech reports, 163.

Gathering the news, 1-13; in athletic reporting, 230; in court reporting, 193; in human interest stories, 234; in interviewing, 169; in reporting speeches, 144. Generalities, meaningless, 89. Gist, 31, 36, 233, 243, 266. Grammar, 78, 84, 123. Group interviews, 187.

Heads, headlines, 27, 30, 78, 188. Hospitals, as news sources, 4. How, feature in, 57. Human interest stories, 17, 24, 32, 178, 185, 191, 198; discussion of, 233-255. Humor, 24, 198, 214, 241. Humorous story, 241.

Infinitive beginning of lead, 81. Injuries, feature in, 65; list of, 64. Instructions to correspondents, 12. Interest, 14, 35, 92, 102, 104, 141, 179, 192; human, 17, 24, 32, 178, 185, 191, 198, 233-255. Interview stories, 175-191. Interviews, for facts, 6, 103; for opinions, 6, 141, 169-191; group, 187.

Keynote beginning of speech report, 158. Killing a story, 30.

Lead, 31; beginning of, 80, 89; don'ts in, 85-90; in athletic stories, 223, 227; in court reports, 195-200; in fire stories, 39, 42, 50, 77-90; in follow stories, 127-140; in human interest stories, 233; in interview stories, 179-185, 188; in obituary stories, 214; in other news stories, 106; in speech reports, 147-164; length of, 75; main verb of, 86. Leaded, 32. Length, of lead, 75; of paragraphs, 75; of sentences, 76. Line-up of teams, 232. Linotype, 30. Lists of dead and injured, 63; of guests, patronesses, etc., 211, 282; of names, 282. Local interest, 21, 26. Long football story, 226. Loss of life, 22, 61, 73; of property, 23, 55.

Mailing stories, 13. Main verb of lead, 86. Make-up, making up, 31, 37. Manner, reporter's, 172. Marriages, 206. Meaningless generalities, 89. Meetings, reports of, 3, 119, 291. Money, sums of, 281, 286, 290. Morgue, 4, 216. "Mr.", use of, 287, 292, 310. Murders, 113.

Name beginning, in court reports, 195; in human interest stories, 249; in interview stories, 175, 180; in news stories, 57, 85, 108-116; in speech reports, 161. Names, prominent, 23, 57, 108-116, 150, 161, 178; use of, 276, 277, 280-283. Narrative order, in athletic stories, 227; in court reports, 200; in human interest stories, 250; in interview stories, 185; in news stories, 34-40, 92-102; in obituaries, 215; in speech reports 166; in wedding stories, 207. News, 14-27, 125; agencies for gathering, 10, 193; coöperation in gathering, 10, 193; expected and unexpected, 3; gathering of, 1-13, 144, 169, 193, 230, 234; sources of, 4, 29; sporting, 219-232, 278, 283. New story, 34-124. News story form, 34-40. News tips, 3, 30, 295. News values, 11, 14-27, 38, 41, 204, 233. Newspaper terms, 28-33. Night city editor, 29. Nose for news, viii. Notebook, 170. Note taking, in athletic reporting, 230; in court reporting, 194; in dramatic reporting, 267; in interviewing, 170; in speech reporting, 144. Noun beginning of lead, 80.

Obituaries, 214. Order of narrative (see Narrative order). Outlining of a story, 99.

Paragraph length, 75, 290. Paragraphing, 48, 75, 166, 186, 290. Participial phrase beginning for lead, 83, 158. Parts of a news story, 46, 76, 91. Pathetic story, 238. Pathos, 24, 198, 238. Personal appeal, 25, 249. Personal news, 20, 204. Photographs, 13. Playing up, 31; of the feature, 27, 31. Point of view of newspaper, 8. Police court news, 4, 118. Policy, 26. Political news, 25. Practice, 294. Preparation of copy, 289. Prepositional phrase beginning, 82. Press Associations, 10, 193. Printed matter, stories on, 121. Prominent names, 23, 57, 108-116, 150, 161, 178. Proof, 30. Proofreader's signs, 32, 290. Property losses as features, 23, 55. Property threatened as feature, 66. Public records, 4. "Punch," 13. Punctuation, 281. Purpose of newspapers, 14.

Q. & A. testimony, 201, 283, 288. Queries, 12. Questions, reader's customary, as features, 51; in fire stories, 38, 42, 50, 77; in follow stories, 132; in human interest stories, 233; in interview stories, 179; in obituaries, 215; in other news stories, 106; in speech reports, 150. Quotation beginnings, direct, 151, 153, 183, 198, 245; indirect, 154. Quotations, 103, 146, 164, 186, 189, 200, 284. Quoting, rules for, 284.

Range of news sources, 20. Readers, classes of, 16. Reader's customary questions. See Questions. Receptions, 210, 291. Rehashing, 125-130. Related stories, 140, 176, 187. Releasing a story, 31, 144. Reporter, 2, 28, 170, 186, 219, 235, 258, 259, 292. Reporting court news, 192-202, 281. Reports, dramatic, 259-275; of meetings, conferences, decisions, etc., 119; of speeches, sermons, lectures, etc., 143-168. Rescues as features, 65. Rewrite man, 125. Rewrite story, 32, 125-130. Robberies, 110, 291. Runs, or beats, 5, 29. Running a story, 30. Running story, 31, 189, 200, 223, 227.

Sarcasm, 274. Scoop, or beat, 6, 30. Season story, 257. Second day story, 32, 125, 130-140. Sensationalism, 18, 90, 234. Sentence length, 76. Sermons, reports of, 3, 143-168. Set up, to, 30. Simple fire story, 40-49. Slang, 28, 292. Slash, to, 37, 92. Slug, 30. Sob squad, 236. Social announcements, 212. Social news, 204-214. Sources of news, 4, 29. Speaker beginning, 161, 180. Special feature story, 255. Speech reports, 3, 143-168, 284, 291. Sporting editor, 29, 219. Sporting news, 219-232. Staff, 28. State editor, 2. Stenographic reports, 144, 194. Stickful, 32. Stories to be corrected, 311. Storms, 3, 116. Story, 30; baseball, 219-232; big, see Big story; body of, see Body of the story; faults in news, 75-104; feature fire, 50-74; fire, 38, 40, 105, 122; follow, follow-up, or second day, 32, 125, 130-140; form of news, 34-40; news, 34-40, 50, 75, 105-124; on announcements, bulletins, and other printed matter, 121; on legislative bills, 121; parts of news, 45, 76, 91; police court, 118; related, 140; rewrite, 32, 125-130; running, 31, 189, 200, 223, 227; simple fire, 41-49; special feature, 255; summary athletic, 222; unusual social, 213. Street numbers, 278, 279, 286, 288, 290, 292, 310. Style, 13, 33, 103, 233, 251. Style Book, 33, 276-293. Suggestions for study, 4, 294. Suicide stories, 115, 291. Summary beginning, for court reports, 197; for interview stories, 182, 188; for speech reports, 157. Sums of money, 281, 286, 290. Sunday editor, 29. Superlatives, 222, 292.

Tables of athletic results, 232, 283. Taking notes. See Note taking. Telegraph editor, 2, 29. Telegraph queries, 12. Telephone, use of, 13. Terms, newspaper, 28-33. Testimony, 200. That-clause beginning, in interview stories, 182; in speech reports, 154. Theatrical news, 259-275, 284. Time, indication of, 281, 286. Time beginning, 47. Timeliness, in general, 19; in human interest stories, 238, 256, 286; in interviews, 176, 187. Tips, 3, 30, 295. Title beginning of speech report, 160. Titles, use of, 276, 277, 279, 282, 284, 287, 290, 292. Track news, 219, 223. Truthfulness, 8; in general, 290; in human interest stories, 239; in interviewing, 179; in speech reporting, 145, 168. Typewriter, use of, 289.

Unexpected attendant circumstances, 60. Unexpected news, 2. Uniformity, 33, 34, 289. United Press, 10. Unusual social stories, 213. Unusualness, 24, 213. Up style, 33. Uplift run, 236, 254. Usual football story, 223.

Values, news, 11, 14, 27, 38, 41, 204, 233. Vaudeville reports, 264. Vernacular, newspaper, 28. Vividness, 104, 114, 116.

Weather story, 256. Wedding announcements, 209. Wedding story, 206. What, as feature, 55. When, as feature, 54. Where, as feature, 52. Who, as feature, 57. Why, as feature, 51. Wordiness, 87.

Yarn, 30.

+---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's Note: | | | |Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and in | |spacing in abbreviations have been retained as in the original,| |along with deliberate misspellings and errors in "News Stories | |to be Corrected" in Appendix II. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+

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