Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1913 — John Knox Abandoned Drugs to Engage in Newspaper work. [ARTICLE]

John Knox Abandoned Drugs to Engage in Newspaper work.

John Knox was home from Chicago to spend Christmas day with his father, Thos. A. Knox, and other relatives. He left Rensselaer in the fall of 1912 to enter a pharmacy school in Chicago. For some time previous he had been employed at The Republican office as a reporter, at which work He showed splendid aptitude and unlimited enterprise. The editor of The Republican, who had started him on the journalistic road felt considerable personal disappointment when he decided to take up pharmacy, tor we saw in him the possibility of success in newspaper work. John relinquished his newspaper connections with somewhat the same reluctance and spent a year in college, working part time in a drugstore in Chicago. He could not get newspaper work out of his mind and last September applied tor a position in the advertising department of the Chicago Daily News. He was given a place and has since then been one of the classified solicitors and has formed a splendid attachment for the work and expects to be permanently in the newspaper work in the future. The Chicago Daily News, by the way, is the greatest classified advertising paper in Chicago and gets the largest price. The paper has a marvelous circulation and is easily the leading afternoon paper. The many friends of John in Rensselaer will be pleased to learn of his return to newspaper work and will expect to see him make mighty good in the-work.