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Milk Boy Poster Enterprise Show Prints and King Show Prints
1 January 1920

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A New Business Venture

The country boy felt at this time he should move to broader fields for wider experience in the printing trade. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 45)

So back to Souris I went. A year later, when The Elgin Banner was offered for sale I purchased the business, including the printing plant and the house in which it was located. The total price paid was but a meagre fraction of the amount that would be required today as a down payment on a house. But at that time it seemed a lot of money.

I was then 19 years of age. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 46-47)

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Judges' Book for Fairs and Exhibitions Enterprise Show Prints and King Show Prints
1 January 1920

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Job Printing

Job printing was the most profitable part of the country newspaper business but businessmen had only the simplest of stationery requirements.

The first printing job The Banner's new management received is well remembered. It was an auction sale bill for W.J. Maquire, an auctioneer, who gave the new owner quite a lift in more ways than one by paying for it in cash on delivery.

To most people there was a lot of glamour about a country printing office and its newspaper. The converting of written copy into printed sheets was a puzzling process unless they witnessed it from start to finish. All of this put the business on a special pedestal in a community. The responsibility of retaining the respect so accorded rested entirely with the newspaper owner. (Excerpt from Paper, Pen and Ink by Andrew King, Pg 50)

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Prize Account Ledger Agricultural Society Enterprise Show Prints and King Show Prints
1 January 1920