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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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The
boy
student
was
also
a
keen
man
of
business,
and
his
pursuit
of
knowledge
in
the
evening
did
not
sap
his
enterprises
of
the
day.
He
soon
acquired
a
virtual
monopoly
for
the
sale
of
newspapers
on
the
line,
and
employed
four
boy
assistants.
His
annual
profits
amounted
to
about
500
dollars,
which
were
a
substantial
aid
to
his
parents.
To
increase
the
sale
of
his
papers,
he
telegraphed
the
headings
of
the
war
news
to
the
stations
in
advance
of
the
trains,
and
placarded
them
to
tempt
the
passengers.
Ere
long
he
conceived
the
plan
of
publishing
a
newspaper
of
his
own.
Having
bought
a
quantity
of
old
type
at
the
office
of
the
DETROIT
FREE
PRESS,
he
installed
it
in
a
spingless
car,
or
'caboose'
of
the
train
meant
for
a
smoking-room,
but
too
uninviting
to
be
much
used
by
the
passengers.
Here
he
set
the
type,
and
printed
a
smallsheet
about
a
foot
square
by
pressing
it
with
his
hand.
The
GRAND
TRUNK
HERALD,
as
he
called
it,
was
a
weekly
organ,
price
three
cents,
containing
a
variety
of
local
news,
and
gossip
of
the
line.
It
was
probably
the
only
journal
ever
published
on
a
railway
train;
at
all
events
with
a
boy
for
editor
and
staff,
printer
and
'devil,'
publisher
and
hawker.
Mr.
Robert
Stephenson,
then
building
the
tubular
bridge
at
Montreal,
was
taken
with
the
venture,
and
ordered
an
extra
edition
for
his
own
use.
The
London
TIMES
correspondent
also
noticed
the
paper
as
a
curiosity
of
journalism.
This
was
a
foretaste
of
notoriety.
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