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- catalog abstract "In the second volume of his autobiographical writings, H. L. Mencken recalls his early years as a reporter. On January 16, 1899, Mencken applied for a job with the Baltimore Morning Herald, much to the editor's amusement. But Mencken persisted, and came back to the offices night after night until finally, in February, the editor sent him out into a blizzard to see if anything worth printing was happening on the snow-covered streets. Soon, Mencken was assigned to the police beat, and then to city hall, where the really big crooks worked. Mencken learned his craft so well that by 1901 he had become the Herald's Sunday editor, and in 1906 he was hired as an editor of the Baltimore Sun, where he quickly attracted a national following. Sustained by a steady diet of crabs, cigars, whiskey, and beer, he haunted Baltimore's jails and courtrooms, its churches, theaters, and saloons, and chased fire wagons, interviewed cops and coroners, battled politicians and crusaders, then raced back to the newsroom to beat his deadline by a second or two.".
- catalog contributor b1551529.
- catalog created "1941.".
- catalog date "1941".
- catalog date "1941.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1941.".
- catalog description "In the second volume of his autobiographical writings, H. L. Mencken recalls his early years as a reporter. On January 16, 1899, Mencken applied for a job with the Baltimore Morning Herald, much to the editor's amusement. But Mencken persisted, and came back to the offices night after night until finally, in February, the editor sent him out into a blizzard to see if anything worth printing was happening on the snow-covered streets. Soon, Mencken was assigned to the police beat, and then to city hall, where the really big crooks worked. Mencken learned his craft so well that by 1901 he had become the Herald's Sunday editor, and in 1906 he was hired as an editor of the Baltimore Sun, where he quickly attracted a national following. Sustained by a steady diet of crabs, cigars, whiskey, and beer, he haunted Baltimore's jails and courtrooms, its churches, theaters, and saloons, and chased fire wagons, interviewed cops and coroners, battled politicians and crusaders, then raced back to the newsroom to beat his deadline by a second or two.".
- catalog extent "xi, 313 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Newspaper days, 1899-1906.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Newspaper days, 1899-1906.".
- catalog issued "1941".
- catalog issued "1941.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Newspaper days, 1899-1906.".
- catalog subject "Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.".
- catalog subject "PS3525.E43 Z53".
- catalog title "Newspaper days, 1899-1906.".
- catalog type "Sample copies (Printing) 20th century. rbpri".
- catalog type "text".