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Show HISTORY OF THE CITIZEN TOLD IN INTERESTING BOOK i A brief history of the American Fork Citizen will appear shortly in the handsomely bound 400-page book, "Early Utah Newspaper Journalism", Journ-alism", to be issued by the Utah State Historical Society. The material concerning The Citizen follows: "The Citizen was entered May 27, 1903, as second class mail matter. W. D. Loveless was proprietor May 30, 1908. In 1914 the paper included "The Lehi Department," and "The Pleasant Grove Department," both page-width headings. That made three headings for one newspaper! In 1915, L. W. Gaisford and S. W. ! Ross bought the hydra-headed sheet, rechristening at least one-third of it "The American Fork Citizen." Ross sold his interest to Gaisford in 1919, who thereupon became editor and manager. Gaisford's "Adieu" appeared November 24, 1923, when he was succeeded by A. F. Gaisford and A. F. Gaisford, Jr., the present publishers." Concerning the book, which will be issued soon, the Society writes: "Only the briefest mention has been permissible, of later newspaper history, the body of the work being devoted to the papers and editors which flourished or perished prior to 1900. "Hundreds of pioneer newspaper battles are fought over again in this history, with all their original pyrotechnics pyro-technics and resulting causalties. Scores of names emblazoned in newspaper memory of the long ago, are illuminated anew, through the carefully quoted references by contemporaries, con-temporaries, as well as through their own editorial utterances; and there are here retold hundreds of exciting episodes of Utah's politico-religious 'Feudal Days'." |