Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — EVEN THE BIG BOYS BOOT ’EM OCCASIONALLY [ARTICLE]

EVEN THE BIG BOYS BOOT ’EM OCCASIONALLY

It’s not always the small town papers that pull the funny boners, for occasionally the big town papers boot one that puts them in the foolish, class. But they never say anything about themselves, naturally, they’re always waiting to jump on the small town papers. Up in Chicago, Illinois, where they publish the world’s greatest newspaper, The Tribune admits it they have B. L. T., the constructor of the linotype column, whose grave duties are to scan the small time papers in search of boners and republish them for the edification of the public. Perhaps Bertram, or whatever his name is, will find something in the world’s greatest newspaper of May 2, which runs like this: