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The Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air Nebraska History posts materials online for your personal use. Please remember that the contents of Nebraska History are copyrighted by the Nebraska State Historical Society (except for materials credited to other institutions). The NSHS retains its copyrights even to materials it posts on the web. For permission to re-use materials or for photo ordering information, please see: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/magazine/permission.htm Nebraska State Historical Society members receive four issues of Nebraska History and four issues of Nebraska History News annually. For membership information, see: http://nebraskahistory.org/admin/members/index.htm Article Title: The Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air Full Citation: Liz Watts, “The Flying Newsboy Takes to the Air,” Nebraska History 86 (2005): 132-145. URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH2005FlyingNews.pdf Date: 9/1/2010 Article Summary: The McCook Daily Gazette was the first newspaper to deliver by air on a regular basis. Harry D Strunk, publisher of the Gazette, adopted air delivery to increase recognition of the purchasing power of farm families, poor road conditions, rising postal rates, and the public’s fascination with aviation. Cataloging Information: Names: Benjamin Day, Harry D Strunk, J O Rankin, E L Kirkpatrick, Henry Ford, Carl Taylor, Steve Tuttle, Arthur Weaver, George Tuttle, Frank Luther Mott, Charles Lindbergh, William M Leary Place Names: Benkelman, Nebraska; Orleans, Nebraska; McCook, Nebraska; Atwood, Kansas; Beverly, Nebraska; Republican River; Hastings, Nebraska; Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York Keywords: The Newsboy; Curtis-Robin monoplane; The McCook Gaily Gazette; American Legion Airport; All- Nebraska Good-Will Air Tour; air-delivery; Pawnee City Republican; The Norton (Kansas) Daily Telegram; McCook Tribune; New York Mercury; Democratic National Committee; Ladies’ Home Journal; Editor and Publisher; United Press; American Newspaper Publishers Association; Post Office; New York Times; Air Commerce Act of 1926; Air Mail Act of 1925; Nebraska Press Association Photographs / Images: Background to introductory pages: Volume VI, The McCook Gazette, September 13, 1929; the Gazette’s Curtis Robin cabin monoplane, christened The Newsboy; Early portrait of Strunk; Gazette building in 1926 [drawing]; Newsboys; Early automobile on rural road; 1928 Nebraska highway map; “farmer” roads maintenance; Steve Tuttle, The Newsboy pilot; Omaha World-Herald cartoon from September 10, 1929, Good-Will Air Tour; Harry Strunk, 1926, in his office at the Gazette building; The Newsboy [airplane] .F~· _~3_ - 1'( -'-, i I 11";;0:... 100 t. tho re~t .,.,.IIr--,{iPI " _ _. j ;:1j1 fo:- th~ D~:I.(e- 'r7C c'\:.j 'iii i i-~ ~ ,\ j, ~~"'~/'I!' ~.-,".:"'n~ Itno thla m:..:!d,"--""r tyi!' , 1 -....:. ~ I'" r~Y our rent In ..Ii .· .. 1.>,'1' ii, d','or.«. 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':. !iv"r jhi.~ ('Iiiria!! 0:' tij(~ (t:i:'<>:' ;r~·· ," :;1" .-----------. {'iV, SEP-TEiViEER 13, 1929 N. E. A. FeatureG. anci lPic~ureo Price Five Cent~l .i :--l . i ~.., ;~--:::.-.~'.~~~- ~ ·~~__~ ___'~_I~_~._<_n"... i I "~_"'__l4_'~_"'_"~._":. : -, ~C}~ The Gazette's Curtis Robin cabin monoplane, christened The Newsboy, became a familiar sight in southwestern Nebraska and northwest~.. ern Kansas. The Curtis Robin above, though not The Newsboy, is a similar model and vin'tage: Museum of Flight. Seattle '. ORMALLY SUBSCRIBERS IN TOWNS AS FAR AWAY Evening Journal, as well as The Chicago Daily as Benkelman, Nebraska, fifty-four miles west of News and The Boston TransClipt, used air-delivelY McCook, or Orleans, Nebraska, seventy-three miles service. A League of Nations conference in east, or Atwood, Kansas, fifty miles south, would November 1929 endorsed a plan for the govern­ have received their daily papers in the mail several ments of Europe to encourage international days after they were plinted. However, on this day, delivelY of newspapers by airplane. Nevertheless, and for the next ten months, subscribers stepped The McCook Daily Gazette was the first newspaper out on their porches to retrieve their Gazettes on to deliver by air on a regular basis.3 the same day they came off the press. I Why did Harry D. Shunk, publisher of the What made the McCook newspaper's delivelY Gazette, risk using this relatively new technology­ so fast on that Friday the thilteenth was The the airplane-on a full-time basis for newspaper Newsboy, a Curtis-Robin cabin monoplane that delivery? How did this innovation affect the had been christened just Gazette, whose effort was later described by minutes before departure journalism historian Frank Luther Mott as "pioneer­ THERE GOES THE FIRST NEWSPAPER on its inaugural delivelY ing"? Strunk's reasons for adopting air delivery DELIVERY FLIGHT KNOWN TO THE flight. As the plane roared included an increased recognition of the purchas­ into the air before a crowd ing power of farm families, poor road conditions, AMERICAN PRESS WORLD! estimated at five to six rising postal rates, and the public's fascination thousand, McCook's super­ with aviation.4 intendent of schools Shunk, thirty-seven years old and in his nine­ asselted, "There goes the first newspaper delivery teenth year as publisher of The McCook Daily flight known to the American press world!"2 Gazette, had arranged an extravagant inauguration The superintendent's statement, while enthusi­ for his new delivelY service to match his claim of astic, was not entirely accurate. Air distribution of being the first to offer regular air delivery. McCook newspapers had been tried before. The New York swelled with visitors who came to witness the Times had flown newspapers to Havana for christening of The Newsboy, attend the dedication delegates of the Pan American Conference in of the new American Legion Airport, view an air January 1928 and to President Hoover and mem­ show, hear speeches, including one by the gover­ bers of his cabinet in Washington in May 1928. The nor of Nebraska, and to inspect several aircraft Los Angeles Times delivered its newspaper to San close up.s Francisco by air in April 1928. In 1929, three New Shunk also capitalized on the All-Nebraska York newspapers, the Times, the World and the Good-Will Air Tour, a week-long tour of twenty­ 134 • NEBRASKA history seven aircraft organized by Omaha businessmen to their savings to open their own newspaper, the promote their city. On the morning of September semi-weekly Red Willow County Gazette. From the 13, 1929, when the twenty-seven air-tour pilots second day of publication, Strunk, at age nineteen, touched down at the new McCook airport, eight shouldered the publisher's responsibilities alone­ other airplanes, including two sent by the Army his partner committed suicide. II from Fort Riley, Kansas, were already on the On July 1, 1924, Strunk gave McCook, population ground. 6,688, the distinction of being the smallest city in The Gazette's coverage of the event dominated the state to have a daily newspaper. It was a bold the front pages on September 12, 13, 14, and 16. move considering the small number of advertisers Reporters from five other newspapers and camera­ in the area, said Allen Strunk. Nevertheless, two men from two newsreel companies also covered it. 6 years later Strunk moved the Gazette's offices, Strunk arrived in McCook The air-delivery inauguration celebration was presses, and Linotype machine to a new building in 1909 to work for the unparalleled in southwestern Nebraska, where on Main Street. The Linotype, acquired in 1914, McCook Tribune. He and wheat fields stretched for miles along the plateaus, was first between Hastings, Nebraska, and Denver. a partner soon opened a job printing shop, and six and cattle grazed in the rugged terrain where the Strunk's next innovation was the air-delivery ser­ months later launched the land drops off to the Republican River. The only vice, which continued until July 1930, when the semi-weekly Red Willow events that even came close were the occasional airplane was damaged in a windstorm-ten County Gazette. On the 7 12 second day of publication, circus and the annual county fair. months in all. with the suicide of his But the public spectacle does not explain why Strunk began promoting air delivery in August partner, nineteen-year-old a publisher with two decades of newspaper 1929 and in a story on August 19 claiming to be Harry Strunk became sole publisher. McCook experience would gamble on airborne delivery the first newspaper in the world to regularly deliver Gazette, June 15, 1932 to towns with populations ranging from 187 newspapers by airplane. A week earlier the news- (Beverly,(Atwood, Nebraska)Kansas). However, to a high Strunk'sof only 1'1~6~6~~~~~~[i]iilillillllll willingness to risk the resources of The Gazette became a his newspaper to provide it to read­ daily in 1924, and in 1926 moved to a new building ers outside of his immediate trade on Main Street that fea­ area showed his initiative and enter­ tured the newspaper's prise.
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