| Show WENT OUT OF HIS LINE ak fake stories are accepted but when writer sends send in a true one he Js as dismissed tears fears ago irvin S cobb the tb humorous writer was waa a correspondent for T various a crik 0 u 0 out u t of t town 0 w pap papers e r s w while le kofl w working 1 n sg 1 in n P paducah u t ah ky hy A not N 0 t a grea great t deal of genuine news tor for out of town c consumption On la Is manufactured at paducah As mr cobb needed the th money there was a period during aich it app appeared esTed that paducah had become the news center of 0 tho the middle middie west not kot a day passed that tome some astounding story was not printed under a paducah date we stood for them said the former telegraph editor of a st SL louis paper because they were so eo good even though we knew they were takis fake s but one day the boss called me in who Is this man cobb at paducah he be asked when I 1 had bad satis satiated fed his thirst for knowledge he ha told mo me to lo ire fire cobb 1 I know all the tha st oriell he be has written are fake said he be lut but I 1 cant stand tor for that one he be sent us yesterday I 1 like some sanity een cen in a fake story it must found as though it might poE possibly sibly under certain condi conditions dons be partly true so said the tha ex telegraph editor 1 I 1 fired cobb ile he made no protest about getting fired in a letter no be wrote me it served me right for getting out of my line said he that was the only story ever sent you that was wholly holly true clveland cleveland leader |
