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" Porcupine, Picayune, & Post : "
Jim Bernhard
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BL
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700083
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b522272
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| Main Entry
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Bernhard, Jim
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| Title & Author
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Porcupine, Picayune, Post : : how newspapers get their names /\ Jim Bernhard
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| Publication Statement
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Columbia :: University of Missouri Press,, c2007
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xiii, 216 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0826217486 (alk. paper)
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: 9780826217486 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and indexes
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| Contents
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What's in a name? -- In the beginning -- Rule, Britannia! -- You've got mail -- Gray ladies no more -- "Print the news and raise hell" -- Party time -- Sound the alarm -- Let there be light -- "Advertisements--the life of a paper" -- Flora and Fauna -- Myth-ellaneous -- The wheel and other inventions -- Location, location, location -- Oddities -- The Brute, the beast, and other figments -- All in fun -- So sue me
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| Abstract
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"Porcupine, Picayune, & Post examines the history and etymology of newspapers' names. Bernhard focuses on printed general-interest English-language dailies and weeklies, from the Choteau (Montana) Acantha to the Moab (Utah) Zephyr, with everything in between"--Provided by publisher
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| Subject
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Titles of newspapers-- Great Britain
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Titles of newspapers-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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071.3
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PN4888.T58B47 2007
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PN4888.T58B47 2007
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Porcupine, Picayune, and Post
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