The Daily Index Metadata
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Title
- Main Title The Daily Index
Date
- Creation: 1902?-05-(06)?
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: Shown here is the front page of the Mineral Wells "Index", featuring a picture of Judge Alvin Lynch, astride a mule and holding a large bottle of the Mineral Wells water. The picture is not sufficiently in focus to read a reliable date to the newspaper, except perhaps to discern that the issue comes from "Volume VIII". We are accustomed to having a newspaper printed with the help of electricity. However, the "Index" of 1940 states that such was not always the case. "Employees of the Index", is said, "Can remember back in the old days when the electric service was rather questionable, especially at night--and it was the custom to put the press boy up on the feeder of the newspaper press, tie an electric cord around his neck,and let him go to sleep. When the power came on the bulb would get hot and wake him up--then he would round up the printers and they would get back to work." All this was in keeping with electricity that consisted of "[A] single drop cord in each room and on the end of it a 32 candle power light globe."
Subject
- University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Communications - Newspapers
- Keyword: Index
- University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism
- Keyword: Mineral Wells
Coverage
- Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
- Time Period: mod-tim
Collection
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Name: A. F. Weaver CollectionCode: AFWC
Institution
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Name: Boyce Ditto Public LibraryCode: BDPL
Resource Type
- Book
Format
- Text
Identifier
- Accession or Local Control No: AWO_1287N.001
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth60962