"Oh!" said Noble. "Thanks!"
But when his mother handed him a copy of the first issue of The North End Daily Oriole, the next day, when he came home to lunch, he read it without edification; there was nothing about Julia in it.
THE NORTH END DAILY ORIOLE
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NEWS OF THE CITY
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The Candidates for mayor at the election are Mr P. N. Gordon
and John T Milo. The contest is very great between these candi-
dates.
Holcombs chickens get in MR. Joseph Atwater's yard a god deal
lately. He says chickens are out of place in a city of this size.
Minnie the cook of Mr. F. L. Smith's residisence goes downtown
every Thrusday afts about three her regular day for it.
A new ditch is being dug accross the MR. Henry D. Vance backyrad.
;Tis about dug but nobody is working there now. Patty
Fairchild received the highest mark in declamation of the 7A at
Sumner School last Friday.
Balf's grorcey wagon ran over a cat of the Mr. Rayfort family.
Geo. the driver of the wagom stated he had not but was willing to
take it away and burg it somewheres Geo. stated regret and claimed
nothing but an accident which could not be helped and not his team
that did the damage.
MissColfield teacher of the 7A atSumner School was reproted on
the sink list. We hope she will soon be well.
There were several deaths in the city this week.
Mr. Fairchild father of Patty Fairchild was on the sick list several
days and did not go to his office but is out now.
Been Kriso the cHauffeur of the Mr. R. G. Atwater family washes
their car on Monday. In using the hose he turned water over the
fence accidently and hit Lonnie the washWOman in back of MRS.
Bruffs who called him some low names. Ben told her if he had have
been a man he wrould strike her but soon the distrubance was at an
end. There is a good deal more of other news which will be printed
in our next NO.
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BY Florence Atwater
The Organstep was seated at his organ in a
In some beautifil words of vagle and brir
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Such was the first issue, complete, of The North End Daily Oriole. What had happened to the poem was due partly to Atwater & Rooter's natural lack of experience in a new and exacting trade; partly to their enviable unconsciousness of any necessity for proof-reading; and somewhat to their haste in getting through the final and least interesting stage of their undertaking; for of course so far as the printers were concerned, the poem was mere hack work anti-climax.
And as they later declared, under fire, anybody that could make out more than three words in five of Florence's ole handwriting was welcome to do it. Besides, what did it matter if a little bit was left out at the end of one or two of the lines? They couldn't be expected to run the lines out over their margin, could they? And they never knew anything crazier than makin' all this fuss, because: Well, what if some of it wasn't printed just exactly right, who in the world was goin' to notice it, and what was the difference of just a few words different in that ole poem, anyhow?