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534 composing-room, used it as a recommendation and landed a new job from a man who, reading it, couldn't see that it was anything else. There was the more obviously apocryphal yarn of the two printers who inked the feet and spurs of two roosters and set them to fighting in the back shop on some big sheets of newsprint. Greeley's favorite typo set the resulting "copy" with no particular trouble until he came to one long, wavy scratch made by one of the spurs. This had to be referred to Greeley, who immediately deciphered it as "unconstitutional."

76. He lost the money in the salmon-canning business in British Columbia and from then on stuck closer to journalism.

77. The firm later established the Mining Journal at San Francisco and ran it with great success.

78. August, 1923.

79. Letter from company dated September 26, 1936.

80. Article by Ralph D. Casey, then professor of journalism in the University of Oregon, Oregon Exchanges, February, 1923, page 3.

81. Powers, History of Oregon Literature, 292.

82. ibid.

83. For this story by Claire Dunbar Roberts, see Matrix, national organ of Theta Sigma Phi, for April, 1934.

84. His Pendleton career is covered in the Pendleton part of this history.

85. Oregon Exchanges, May, 1924, page 7.

86. F. T. Gilbert, Historic Sketches, 367.

87. F. B. Ludington, op. cit., 261.

88. Gilbert, op. cit., 367.

89. Parsons, History of Umatilla County, 284.

90. Personal interview, August 10, 1938.

91. Parsons, op. cit., 205.

92. Parsons, op. cit., 205. Interview by Sam Raddon, Jr., Oregon Journal.

94. Personal interview, August 10, 1938.

95. F. T. Gilbert, Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia, and Garfield Counties and Umatilla County, Oregon, p. 368.

96. Letter to Colin V. Dyment, September 3, 1921.

97. ibid.

98. According to Ayer's Directory.

99. As told by E. P. Dodd, former publisher of the Pendleton Morning Tribune, in the Herald's anniversary number, September 17, 1936.

100. News-Reporter, March, 1938.

101. The Telephone.

102. The Reporter and the Courier.

103. Formerly of the Reporter.

104. Columbia University, master's thesis by Irl S. McSherry, 1925.

105. Douglas C. McMurtrie in the Typo Student, Seattle, April, 1935.

106. Information in this paragraph obtained in part in personal letter from P. F. Chandler, of Chandler & Haight, Blue Mountain Eagle.

107. George A. Scibird, History of Newspapers of Union Oregon, from 1870 to 1933, unpublished.

108. On page 347 of this volume.

109. Data from George A. Scibird, op. cit.

110. Elgin Recorder, Feb. 28, 1935.

111. George Huntington Currey has in his library old files and records covering, in thorough fashion, the newspaper history of La Grande and, to a certain extent, of the rest of Union county. From these files and from personal conferences with