Reporters and reporting -- Juvenile fiction
Harry Weston was an orphan at eighteen years of age. He resided in the town of Dellwood, in southeastern Colorado, about seventy miles from Denver. After paying his father’s funeral expenses with the money his father had left in the bank, he was penniless. He hardly knew what...
Harry Weston was an orphan at eighteen years of age. He resided in the town of Dellwood, in southeastern Colorado, about seventy miles from Denver. After paying his father’s fun...
2. Chapter IIHarry rented a room and engaged board at the home of one of the miners, and then went back downtown. He looked around till he found a room upstairs over a grocery store, that wo...
3. Chapter IIINext morning, after going to the printing office and looking over his equipment, Harry noted that there was one item missing that he would require; that was a board on which to...
4. Chapter IVNext day Harry went to work setting the advertisements. It was slow and somewhat tedious work, but he had set jobs and some advertisements in the office of the weekly paper in A...
5. Chapter VMrs. Tompkins knocked on Harry’s door at half-past seven next morning. He got up and washed his face and hands, brushed his hair, and then donned his best suit of clothes. It wa...
6. Chapter VI“He said for me to tell you that if you can afford to pay me three dollars a week, that would be satisfactory, and that he supposes I can earn that much.”
7. Chapter VIIHarry went upstairs and sat down to write an article about the discharge of the home miners as a result of the foreigners having been given work in the Annex Mine, then he went...
8. Chapter VIIIHarry had only been in his office a few minutes next morning when the door opened and Morgan, the manager of the Annex Mine, entered. His face wore a dark look, and Harry almost...
9. Chapter IXMr. Holman, the chairman, made quite a good speech, explaining the purpose of the meeting at some length, and stating that it was the consensus of opinion among the business men...
10. Chapter XSubscriptions to “The Coalville News” were coming in at a good rate. The first week seventy-three people had come up to the office and paid a dollar for a year’s subscription an...
11. Chapter XIOne might suppose that in a small town of the size of Coalville, viz., fourteen hundred inhabitants, there would not be much of interest to print in the paper. But such is not t...
12. Chapter XIIAfter this incident of the timber fire, nothing out of the ordinary took place for quite a while. Week after week went by, with only about the usual amount of news in the paper....