Title
The Gazette Girls Of Grundy County: Horse Trading, Hot Lead, And High Heels (Volume 1),New
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It was 1933 when Gwen and Ardis Hamilton bought the Grundy County Gazette. Gwen was twentyone, barely old enough to vote, and Ardis was twentythree. America was in the throes of the Depression. Buying the paper had been Gwen's idea, tossed out half in jest: why not buy a rundown country paper, build it up, and sell it in a couple of years? And so that hot July they set out in Nancy, Ardis's 1930 Chevrolet, with their cat, Tarzanna, and all their wordly possessions, and headed to Spickard, a northwestern Missouri town of six hundred.In chapters that alternate between the sisters' distinctive voices, The Gazette Girls of Grundy County tells a captivating story of two women's adventures in a small midwestern town. Although both women had been trained in journalism, their education hadn't prepared them for the realities of running a country newspaper. While Gwen sold advertising to local businesses, Ardis worked financial wizardry, often dipping into her own savings, to keep the Gazette in the black. With no money for subscriptions, Grundy County residents taught the sisters the fine art of horse trading, offering dressed chickens, quarters of beef, 'ricks' and 'racks' of firewood, and countless other goods in exchange for subscriptions to the everimproving newspaper.The 'Gazette girls,' as they were known by the locals, were as different as they could be. At five foot two (in very high heels), Ardis was a serious career woman who dabbled in Republican politics. At five foot nine, Gwen was a gregarious, sometimes impetuous, closet Democrat. But both shared persistence and dedication in equal measure. As the sisters waged daily battles with their tempermental printing press, Old Bertha, and their sometimes more temperamental press operator, the Gazette began to garner awards for editorials and features andmore importantto earn the enthusiasm of its readers.Filled with hilarious stories of smalltown life, The Gazette Girls of Grundy County is a remarkable story of two women coming of age in the newspaper business and an extraordinary slice of Americana.
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