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In alternating chapters, perfectionist, no-nonsense Ardis and her more gregarious, enthusiastic sister (one spelled, the other didn't) recall the days when type and women were hot. It is a thoroughly charming little memoir, treating not only of small-town newspapers but of the small-town America they reflected. Plus, of course, a pre-Lib primer on what a woman could do when she set her mind to it, even in the '30s, without losing her rightly cherished femininity. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Gwen and Ardis Hamilton s exploits make for fascinating reading. Rural Missouri In alternating chapters, perfectionist, no-nonsense Ardis and her more gregarious, enthusiastic sister (one spelled, the other didn't) recall the days when type and women were hot. It is a thoroughly charming little memoir, treating not only of small-town newspapers but of the small-town America they reflected. Plus, of course, a pre-Lib primer on what a woman could do when she set her mind to it, even in the '30s, without losing her rightly cherished femininity. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Gwen and Ardis Hamilton s exploits make for fascinating reading. Rural Missouri In alternating chapters, perfectionist, no-nonsense Ardis and her more gregarious, enthusiastic sister (one spelled, the other didn't) recall the days when type and women were hot. It is a thoroughly charming little memoir, treating not only of small-town newspapers but of the small-town America they reflected. Plus, of course, a pre-Lib primer on what a woman could do when she set her mind to it, even in the '30s, without losing her rightly cherished femininity. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

<p> In alternating chapters, perfectionist, no-nonsense Ardis and her more gregarious, enthusiastic sister (one spelled, the other didn't) recall the days when type and women were hot. It is a thoroughly charming little memoir, treating not only of small-town newspapers but of the small-town America they reflected. Plus, of course, a pre-Lib primer on what a woman could do when she set her mind to it, even in the '30s, without losing her rightly cherished femininity. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

In alternating chapters, perfectionist, no-nonsense Ardis and her more gregarious, enthusiastic sister (one spelled, the other didn't) recall the days when type and women were hot. It is a thoroughly charming little memoir, treating not only of small-town newspapers but of the small-town America they reflected. Plus, of course, a pre-Lib primer on what a woman could do when she set her mind to it, even in the '30s, without losing her rightly cherished femininity. --Los Angeles Times Book Review</p> Gwen and Ardis Hamilton s exploits make for fascinating reading. <i>Rural Missouri</i></p>

<p>&quot;In alternating chapters, perfectionist, no-nonsense Ardis and her more gregarious, enthusiastic sister (one spelled, the other didn't) recall the days when type and women were hot. It is a thoroughly charming little memoir, treating not only of small-town newspapers but of the small-town America they reflected. Plus, of course, a pre-Lib primer on what a woman could do when she set her mind to it, even in the '30s, without losing her rightly cherished femininity.&quot;--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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After selling the Grundy County Gazette in 1938, Gwen Hamilton Thogmartin worked for Emporia State University and the Lyon County Historical Society Museum. Financial difficulties had made it impossible for her to complete her undergraduate studies in the early 1930s, but she completed her degree in 1975. Ardis Hamilton Anderson continued her work in journalism as a reporter. She was the youngest charter member of the Missouri Women's Press Club, in which she remained active until leaving the state in 1990. Both women now live in Emporia, Kansas, not far from their hometown of Waverly.

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