01-11-2018, 01:05 AM
Just wondering if any old timers from Dayton remember that paper delivered free to nearly every home Every Wednesday in Montgomery County until the 1970s when it folded.
I had a route of over 300 houses my brother and I delivered.
Some kids cheated and didn't bother to deliver them and got paid anyway, but on average most did get delivered. The last thing I was ever going to do was not deliver every paper with my mom keeping her eye on everything.. I wasn't suicidal at 12 ..
My dad was the managing editor of the paper, but it folded because the company ownership refused to modernize the printing equipment and stuck with lead type until it was financially unfeasable to turn a profit. Some other factors contributed as well like the union printers scale was too high to support an ad based paper anymore..
Just wondering if anyone remembered the Dayton Shopping News..
I had a route of over 300 houses my brother and I delivered.
Some kids cheated and didn't bother to deliver them and got paid anyway, but on average most did get delivered. The last thing I was ever going to do was not deliver every paper with my mom keeping her eye on everything.. I wasn't suicidal at 12 ..
My dad was the managing editor of the paper, but it folded because the company ownership refused to modernize the printing equipment and stuck with lead type until it was financially unfeasable to turn a profit. Some other factors contributed as well like the union printers scale was too high to support an ad based paper anymore..
Just wondering if anyone remembered the Dayton Shopping News..
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
