| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Journalism describes in these words Dunnpurchase of the newspaper In acquiring the Transcript the down payment wasstumbling block until Thomas Speirs an enterprising pioneer merchant offered the loan of the required 10 down and more if the paper ever made any money in this doubtful venture Very little in the production of smaller newspapers of that day was mechanical Type was set by hand The small flat-bed Army press required two men to operate The name of this press incidentally was probablycolloquialism of the CoatesArmory machine used rather extensively to produce early-day weeklies One man handledroller with which he inked the type forms The other on the opposite side of the press put paper on the forms and by means ofhand crank made the printed impression by rolling the paper under the cylinder Though it waslaborious process the new editor had an expressed determination to succeed bringing into the newspaper business the pioneer spirit which had dominated his life During his journalistic career he bought his supplies almost exclusively from Western Newspaper Union In1962 talk at an association convention John Johnny Jones who was manager of WNUSalt Lake City office remembered Uncle Jimmy Dunn came into our office regularly oncemonth visited and chatted forwhile maybe bought some supplies and then plunked down 20 gold piece to pay his monthly bill He always carriedour office would then visit some of volumes to buy do not know what but he had one of the largest private Johnny Jones recollection of little black valise and from the book stores looking for type of books he looked for libraries in Utah this Scotsmaninterest in books and reading was accurate Before his death in 1923 he compiled one of the biggest individually-owned libraries west of the Mississippi It occupied more than five hundred square feet and contained hundreds of volumes all non-fiction and many rare and very old Active in Utah State Press Association Dunn joined other publishers in attending the World Newspaper Congress held in conjunction with the St Louis WorldFair in 1904 482 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
