After Patrolman Higgins had testified that he found them pulling up young trees on Hartford Avenue Saturday[Pg 207] night, Joseph Dant, Charles Herrig, and Oscar Kellin, each 19 years old, were fined $10 and costs in District Court on Monday.
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First Story in Evening Paper.
Amelia Minkle, 19, 656 Second St., was run down and injured by an automobile driven by Mrs. H. M. Greene, 931 Hillside Ave., at 7 o’clock this morning at Eleventh and National Avenues. The girl was on her way to work. She alighted from a car and started to cross the street when the automobile turning the corner struck her and knocked her to the pavement. Mrs. Greene stopped her machine and called the police ambulance. The girl was removed to the Emergency Hospital. Although painful, her injuries are not serious.
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Rewritten Story and Head in Next
Morning’s Paper.
GIRL HURT BY AUTO—While crossing Eleventh Avenue on her way to work Monday morning, Amelia Minkle, 19, 656 Second street, was knocked down and slightly injured by an automobile owned and driven by Mrs. H. M. Greene, 931 Hillside Avenue.
SUGGESTIONS
- Read all the local papers every day before beginning your work.
- Remember that few first stories exhaust all the news possibilities.
- Follow up every story as long as indications point to new and interesting developments.
- Look for ulterior causes and motives as new phases.
- Look forward for new features to possible results and consequences.
- Get interviews with persons of prominence and authority on all important events, as new features.
- Look at the event from a new angle before beginning your rewrite story.
- Play up the latest possible phase of the news in the lead.
- Find a new feature to play up in rewriting when you have no more facts.
- Anticipate the next development of the event in beginning the lead of your rewrite story.
- Bring the rewritten story “up to the minute” by giving prominence to features of “to-day.”
PRACTICE WORK