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Show 9 Beginning of "Reuter's." Reutor's tho European news agency, i had a curious beginning. Baron Reu-tor Reu-tor lone nursed an idea for organizing tho supply of foreign news In Identical terms to all tho newspapers, but editors edi-tors gave him no encouragement. At last ho determined to risk things, nnd arranged wlth'correspondents all over I Europe. When their messages began! to como In ho took them round personally person-ally to tho newspaper olllcos and offered of-fered them for nothing, on condition that his namo should be printed against them. "Try them for von month," ho urged. "If thoy not satisfy satis-fy jou, veil, to you It signify nothing noth-ing " Ono editor after another did try them, with such results that when Router broached tho subject of subscription sub-scription rates his demands were readily read-ily Compiled with. . |