Shoe Sale

“It upsets the people in the newsroom to talk that way, but the ads were the most important editorial content from the standpoint of the reader.” 

—Warren Buffett, billionaire businessman, in Catherine Chiglinsky and Gerry Smith, “Warren Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as ‘Toast’ After Ad Decline,” Bloomberg, April 23, 2019.

   

• Editorial Comment: Shoe sales always beat city council stories.

 

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The famous Cox Crabpot Christmas Tree

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