Fifty years a journalist
Print Book, English, 1921
Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1921
Biographies
1 preliminary leaf, v-xiv pages, 1 leaf, 371, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles 24 cm
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First decade
The year of my birth
The state of Illinois
The town of Hudson
My family
My childhood days
At Nauvoo
The underground railway
Second decade
The year 1858
Mr. Lincoln's election
Boyhood in Chicago
Third decade
Election of General Grant
The great Chicago fire
In daily journalism
Meeting with Ito
The case of Baron de Palm
A tour of the south
As a Washington Correspondent
Founding a daily paper
Creating 99-cent stores
Enter Victor F. Lawson
Sotry of "Ross Raymond"
Dick Lane, my burglar friend
The case of Judge Blodgett
Detective journalism-the Spencer case
Fourth decade
A tour in europe
Meeting Gambetta and Clemenceau
More detective journalism
The campaign of 1880
What I knew about Grant
Founding the "Morning News"
Origin of a famous phrase
Acquaintance with Diaz
An invitation from New York
Founding the first mail train
Day with Eugene Field
Corrrecting some false ideas
The puritan strain
Practical jokes
Emory Storrs and his tailor
The campaign of 1884
"Nor for forty nominations!"
The famous Mackin case
The case of McGarigle
Organizing the linotype company
Convicting the Chicago anarchists
Welfare in earnest
Words can kill
Hunting down the guilty
Tense days
Punishing corrupt public officials
Retiring from journalism
Fifth decade
A sentimental journey
Days with Andrew D. White
The Diedrichs affair
Banking and other activities
Visit of W.T. Stead
Evolution of news gathering
The first asssociated press
A masterpiece of reporting
The campaign of 1896
Collapse of the United Press
A princely offer
Reporting the Spanish War
Leonard Wood's protégé
A rascal named Smith
Sixth decade
Forming a new associated press
Wireless telegraphy
The assassination of President McKinley
Prince Henry's visit
The Martinique disaster
Extension of the foreign service and the associated press
Audience with the Italian king
Audience of Pope Leo XIII
Dinner with the Kaiser
The death of Pope Leo XIII
The removal of the Russian censorship on foreign news
The Russo-Japanese war
The qualities needed in a war correspondent
The Portsmouth conference
The case of Langerkranz
Seventh decade
Genesis of the world war
Discovery of the North Pole
An English panic
Days in Paris
The German situation
Visiting Asia
Selecting an associate
The world war
Lack of preparedness
Reporting the war
Case of Cardinal Mercier
Case of the "Lusitania"
Doctor Depage's hospital
America in the war
The memorable year 1918
A fine funeral
Creel committee
Greetings abroad
The associated press of to-day
Presidential years
Our critics
Plates printed on both sides