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Show EDITOR PUBLISHED UNIQUE DAILY Pr. Charles If. Sheldon, author of one of the world's best-selling religious novels, "In His Steps," died last month nt the age of 89. Once, in 1900, he edited the "Daily Capital" of Topeka, Kas., the way he believed Jesus would have a newspaper run and the circulation of the journal, it is said, jumped from 30,000 to 370,-000. 370,-000. In his edition Dr. Sheldon refused to run patent-medicine advertisements and tabooed illustrations illus-trations of "hose and garter" advertisements. ad-vertisements. This is an interesting illustration illustra-tion of the changing ways of mankind. man-kind. Pick up a modern magazine today, or almost any publication, and you will find patent-medicine copy and illustrations that go much further in revealing the human hu-man form than ever was attempted attempt-ed in "hose and garter" advertising. |