item: #1 of 7 id: 11263 author: Verne, Jules title: The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" date: None words: 72929 flesch: 80 summary: I fall into that sort of slumber provoked by the regular trepidations of a train on the road, mingled with ear-splitting whistles and the grind of the brakes as the speed is slowed, and tumultuous roars as passing trains are met with, besides the names of the stations shouted out during the short stoppages, and the banging of the doors which are opened or shut with metallic sonority. And when this vast basin has dried up through evaporation, why should not a railroad be run across its sandy bed, so that trains can run through without transhipment at Baku and Uzun Ada? While we are waiting for the realization of this desideratum, it is necessary to take the steamboat, and that I am preparing to do in company with many others. keywords: baron; bluett; bombarnac; box; car; case; caterna; century; chao; china; chinese; company; day; engine; ephrinell; eyes; faruskiar; french; good; grand; half; hand; hour; journey; kilometres; kinko; left; line; look; major; man; miss; monsieur; morning; new; night; noltitz; o'clock; pan; passengers; pekin; place; platform; popof; railway; roumanian; run; russian; sea; second; sir; station; stop; table; think; time; town; train; transasiatic; treasure; turkestan; van; young; zinca cache: 11263.txt plain text: 11263.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 16397 author: Garis, Howard Roger title: Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire date: None words: 56144 flesch: 90 summary: This is Mr. Larry Dexter. Those of my readers who want to know what Larry's next assignment was may learn by reading the fourth volume of this series, to be called: Larry Dexter and the Bank Mystery, or, A Young Reporter in Wall Street. keywords: captain; city; day; editor; emberg; father; good; grace; house; larry; leader; man; men; millionaire; new; news; newspaper; office; paper; potter; reporter; retto; right; story; sullivan; thought; time; want; way cache: 16397.txt plain text: 16397.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 16447 author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins title: The Clarion date: None words: 123283 flesch: 85 summary: If the money is good enough for me to spend, it's good enough for me to earn, said Hal Surtaine a little grandiloquently. Fellows, he said, and he turned sharply to face Hal Surtaine, I don't know how the devil old Themistocles ever could do it--unless he owned a newspaper! Silence followed, and then a quick acclaiming shout, as they grasped the implicit challenge of the corollary. keywords: advertising; big; boy; boyee; business; certina; city; clarion; come; course; dad; day; doctor; dollars; editor; editorial; elliot; ellis; epidemic; esmé; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; great; guess; hal; hal surtaine; half; hand; head; help; home; kind; let; life; look; man; matter; mcguire; men; merritt; milly; mind; miss; money; neal; news; newspaper; office; paper; people; pierce; place; print; right; room; run; set; son; story; suppose; sure; surtaine; talk; think; thought; time; tone; town; veltman; voice; way; week; willard; woman; word; work; worthington; young cache: 16447.txt plain text: 16447.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 25968 author: Hyde, Grant Milnor title: Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing date: None words: 74929 flesch: 71 summary: | | That the Irish race has a great destiny| |to fulfill, one greater than it has | |achieved in its glorious past, was the | |prophecy of Prof. Charles Johnston of | |Dublin university in his lecture at the | |city library Sunday | |afternoon.--_Wisconsin State Journal. | | | | We would like to learn a little about | |the arrangements that are being made by | |the Chinese to indicate their sorrow at | |the deaths of their beloved rulers. keywords: account; beginning; body; case; city; copy; course; court; day; death; details; editor; end; facts; feature story; fire stories; fire story; follow; following; form; game; house; human; importance; interest story; interview story; john; jones; lead; life; line; man; mrs; names; news stories; news story; news value; newspaper; newspaper story; number; order; papers; paragraph; people; place; play; questions; quotation; reader; reason; reporter; reporting; reports; rewrite story; running story; sentence; smith; speaker; speech; story |; street; striking; study; subject; summary; thing; time; use; way; words; work; worth; write; writing; york; | =; | fire; | new; | |; | |and; | |of; | |the cache: 25968.txt plain text: 25968.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 30765 author: Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) title: News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories date: None words: 120063 flesch: 72 summary: | Violating Loti | Third | dler | | | Then follow the usual dull items about Henry Hawkins Sundaying in Adamsville and Tom Anderson autoing with a new girl. keywords: + =; = +; = =; accuracy; afternoon; american; attention; avenue; ball; beginning; best; big; black; body; boy; business; cabinet |; cause; chicago; city; city editor; club; company; copy; corner |; court; day; death; details; east |; editor; effect; end; evening; events; face; facts; feature; feet; fire; following; game; general; good; half; hand; head; high; home; hour; house; interest; interview; law; lead; left; life; line |; long; love; man; matter; men; miss; morning; mother; names; navy; need; news; news stories; news story; newspaper; night; note; number; office; order; p.m. |; page; paper; paragraph; persons; phrases; place; pm |; point; police; present; press; public; quotation; reader; reporter; room; second; sentence; set; shot; society; space; state |; statement; stories; story; street; sunday; telephone; time; type; united; use; value; way; wedding; wife; women; words; work; world; worth; write; writing; years; yesterday; york; young; | =; | hays; | m; | st; | |; | |"i; | |=hole; | |all; | |ambrosia; | |and; | |at; | |by; | |country; | |from; | |have; | |he; | |his; | |in; | |into; | |justice; | |mcloughlin; | |mrs; | |new; | |of; | |one; | |president; | |sawyer; | |season; | |she; | |the; | |their; | |they; | |third; | |three; | |through; | |to; | |two; | |washington; | |we; | |well; | |when; | |will; | |with cache: 30765.txt plain text: 30765.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 45485 author: Dean, Graham M. title: The Sky Trail date: None words: 44800 flesch: 87 summary: Little by little Tim slid down the swaying rope. The raw, damp weather and the lead-colored sky had a depressing effect on Tim. keywords: air; atkinson; captain; carson; cockpit; editor; feet; field; fire; flying; good; good news; half; hour; hunter; mail; mail plane; managing; miles; minutes; motor; news; plane; ralph; reporter; right; ship; sky; state; tim; time; way cache: 45485.txt plain text: 45485.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 55535 author: Courlander, Alphonse title: Mightier than the Sword date: None words: 100088 flesch: 85 summary: The first ride through London, when Humphrey felt the great buildings all around him, and above him, rising enormously in a long chain that seemed to stretch for miles and miles, below the sky that was copper-tinted with the glare of thousands of lamps. Humphrey felt in his pocket for half-a-crown and slipped it into the porter's hand. keywords: beaver; black; boy; business; carr; day; days; door; easterham; elizabeth; evening; eyes; face; ferrol; fleet; good; great; hair; half; hand; heart; home; house; humphrey; humphrey quain; kenneth; left; life; lilian; lips; london; look; love; making; man; men; mind; moment; morning; new; news; night; office; paper; paris; people; place; pride; quain; red; reporters; rivers; room; round; smile; story; street; things; thought; time; tommy; train; voice; way; week; white; words; work; world; wratten; years cache: 55535.txt plain text: 55535.txt