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NEW BRIGHTON PAPERS. Addison W. Whisler was the son of the late John H. and Agnes Jackson Whisler, and was bom at the Whisler homestead at Bolesville October 31, 1842. He was educated in the public schools and engaged in mer- chandising in Rochester for several years in the early seventies. From 1877 to 1890 he resided at Yankton, S. D., during which time he engaged in steamboat work on the upper Missouri, and on the south branch of the Saskatchewan river in the British Northwest Territory. Later for several years he represented a Sioux City, la. manufacturing firm in the Pittsburg district. Since the spring of 1894, he has represented the 'TDaily News" con- tinuously in the lower Beaver valley district, and in ad- dition the Pittsburg Daily and Sunday "Press," and the Afternoon News Bureau. After the installation of the Mergenthaler Linotype in the office in January 1901, Guy H. Correll of Canton, O., became the operator, and has remained in charge of it since, except for a few months he was in the South, when Fred Shook had charge. Mr. Correll was bom in Abilene, Kansas, November 21, 1877. He began news- paper work by delivering papers. When 17 years of age his parents moved to Canton, Ohio, where he foimd em- ployment as apprentice in the "Evening Repository," and was assistant machinist on the linotypes. He left there in January 1901 to accept the position of operator in the "News" office, on the first linotype set up in the county. Ambridge-Economy Citizen. The "Ambridge-Economy Citizen" a weekly published every Friday, was started in July 1904, and is edited by P. A. Revere, Ambridge, Pa.