Transcriber’s Note (continued)

Punctuation errors in the general text have been repaired. In the practice work examples however, which requires the student journalist to mark up or rewrite a passage of text, there may be deliberate punctuation errors and misspellings. These have been left unchanged.

Except as noted below, unusual or variable spelling and hyphenation published in the original book have been retained in this transcription.

Page 10 — “semi-circular” changed to “semicircular” (semicircular stereotype plates)

Page 52 — “newpapers” changed to “newspapers” (not what newspapers or their readers want)

Page 67 — “defiintely” changed to “definitely” (be definitely fixed in advance)

Page 112 — “near by” changed to “nearby” (the railroad yards nearby)

Page 113 — “day light” changed to “daylight” (Seized by thugs in broad daylight)

Page 149 — “anyway” changed to “any way” (Q.—Did you regulate their duties in any way?)

Page 159 — “acccumulated” changed to “accumulated” (protecting gathered and accumulated)

Page 192 — “daintly” changed to “daintily” (daintily covering her golden brown hair)

Page 212 — “requires” changed to “require” (Feature stories require some literary ability)

Page 222 — “Hipprodrome” changed to “Hippodrome” (back to the Hippodrome)

Page 260 — “Catch lines” changed to “Catch-lines” (Catch-lines, such as “Society,”)

Page 260 — “catch lines” changed to “catch-lines” (the catch-lines may indicate)

Page 267 — “catch lines” changed to “catch-lines” (The application of these marks and the catch-lines)

Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and placed before the Index.

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