. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ABTBMU8 WARD. 21 Being fond of roving, Charles Browne soon left Boston, and,after traveling as a journeyman printer over much of New York andMassachusetts, he turned up in the town of Tiffin, Seneca county,Ohio, where he became reporter and compositor, at four dollars perweek. After making many friends among the good citizens ofTiffin, by whom he is remembered as a patron of side-shows andtraveling circuses, our hero suddenly set out for Toledo, Ohio,wtere he immediately made a reputation as a wri
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ABTBMU8 WARD. 21 Being fond of roving, Charles Browne soon left Boston, and,after traveling as a journeyman printer over much of New York andMassachusetts, he turned up in the town of Tiffin, Seneca county,Ohio, where he became reporter and compositor, at four dollars perweek. After making many friends among the good citizens ofTiffin, by whom he is remembered as a patron of side-shows andtraveling circuses, our hero suddenly set out for Toledo, Ohio,wtere he immediately made a reputation as a writer of sarcasticparagraphs in the columns of the Toledo Commercial. He wageda vigorous newspaper war with the reporters of the ToledoBlade, but, while the Blade indulged in violent vituperation,Artemus was good-natured and full of humor. His column soongained a local fame, and every body read it. His fame even traveledas far as Cleveland, where, in 1858, when Mr. Browne was twenty-four years of age, Mr. J. W. Gray, of the Cleveland Plaindealer,secured him as local reporter, at a salary of twe
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