The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-23
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THE ACE1HERALD
Network OF Private
Leased System Covers
All Alabama

Facilities possessed by The Age
Herald for gathering news by wire in
clude its own statewide leased tele-
phone and telegraph wires of more than
1000 miles and the worldwide service
of the Associated Press and leased
wires to. Washington and New York.
The seven news of the As
ISOLATED Press is supplied exclusively
in Birmingham to The Age-Herald.
The termini or nerve centers of all
these wires in The Age-Heralds new
skyscraper home are on the third floor
where the clicking of the telegraph
keys and the long distance telephone
operator bring the latest news of state
and nation to the EDITORS finger tips.
While many persons are asleep these
agencies are bnsy recording the events
of the day whether they be the cleo
ton of president. a japanese earth
quake or less consequential news. :,
Of The Age Herald's own leased
wires perhaps the most important is
the telegraph connection with Mont
gomery and Mobile. This wire enables
It to keep in instant touch with the
state capital and the states only sea-
port and to supply the news as it
occurs in those centers. The Age-Her-
AIDS state capital bureau gathers the
happenings from Troy, Opelika and
other central Alabama points and re-
lays them over the telegraph wire into
The Age-Herald offices. Mobile. by its
leased wire connections with south Ala
bama and Mississippi, points is able
4. to dispatch the news of wide area
sby telegraph into The Age-Herald Of
flee.
Leased Telephone Wires
Direct from The Age-Herald build
ing, leased telephone wires radiate like
spoke of wheel to Bessemer, Tusca-
loosa, Jasper, Admission, Gadsden, the
Tennessee Valley at Albany-Decatur
and the Muscle Shoals section at Shelf
!, field. Through these bureaus the pa
nrer is able to give its readers the news
awhile it is news! 1t was through this
network of it's own wires and with
J the assistance of the Associated Press
|, that The Age Herald was able to give
.,vote of all but a few counties the
morning after the presidential, primary
! of March IL.
Most of the telegraph news of The
Age-Herald is copied on typewriters by
operators familiar with the Morse
code. But an automatic typewriter
controlled by n master machine on the
other end takes the news off one of
its leased wires. This wonder of the
mechanical world reels off copy" with
out the touch of human hands. 1t is
this machine. that takes off the wire
the Clapper POLITICAL stories" the Peg
Ter sport pegs" as we'll as other fea-
lures and current happenings of the
day.
No account pf The Age-Herald's
wire service would be complete with
out something special about the As
ISOLATED Press with it's $1,000 miles of
telegraph wires, cables buried deep
in the ocean and the cracking of the
ether help this organization to bring
the news of the day to Age-Herald
readers at the Sbreakfast table.
Mark Twain in speaking of this or
ganization which serves The Age-Her-
aid as we'll as. 1876 other newspapers
said: There are only two forces that
can carry lightseto all the corners of
the globe-77on1y two--the sun in the
heavens and the Associated Press down
here"
Hall Mark Of Accuracy
by the Associated Press" has be-
come hall mark. of accuracy and
wherever that caption appears the read
or may know that the story bears no
bias. The Associated Press is a mu-