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Show News Aencles in England, "Renter" is a word which is pretty familiar fa-miliar to most newspaper readers, yet few are aware that Renter's system of news supply is practically not more than thirty years old. In 1S49 Baron Renter tried to introduce his agency into the metropolis, but the London newspapers would have nothing to do with him. At first he confined his attention to the snp- 1 ply of fiuam'.:U intelligence, but in liwO he managed to be first in the field with a report of the seech delived by Napoleon III at the New Year's reception in the Tuileries, ai:a from thenceforward Renter's Rent-er's agency bvame an established fact. The Press association, or "P. A.," as it is called by newspaper people, is an even more recent institution. Prior to lbtW it was unknown. Chambers' Journal |