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 *tial facts, in order that they may be used as "fillers" or may be grouped with similar short items under general headings, such as "Sparks From the Wires," "Telegraph Ticks," "City News In Brief," "Told In Brief," "State News." Local news stories of this type are rewritten from other city papers, and state news is often rewritten from daily and weekly papers received in exchange and known as "state exchanges." Some of the news associations furnish brief stories of this kind which may be grouped under one head or which may be used as "fillers." A single cross-line head, or a side head, is often put on these short "items" by the man who rewrites them. Examples of rewritten stories of this kind follow:

(1)

First Story in Evening Paper.

Three boys, Joseph Dant, 19; Charles Herrig, 19; and Oscar Kellin, 19; were brought into district court this morning for tearing up small trees recently planted on Hartford Avenue. The boys attended a dance Saturday night and on their way home, according to the testimony of Patrolman Higgins, destroyed the trees.

"You are each fined $10 and costs," said Judge Bellows. "You boys deserve even more severe punishment. There would be slight encouragement for people to beautify their homes, were boys like you allowed to go unpunished."

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Rewritten Story and Head in Next Morning's Paper.

THEY PULLED UP TREES.

After Patrolman Higgins had testified that he found them pulling up young trees on Hartford Avenue Sat