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Daily Reminder

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Who amongst you remembers the Daily Reminder?

From a Flyover Friend comes this note…

You’re so good about bringing up nostalgic Emporia subjects, that I had an idea.  Since you weren’t a child in Emporia you probably don’t remember, but in the 1960s (and maybe a bit later) there used to be a tiny daily advertising newspaper called the Daily Reminder.  It was printed on about a legal size piece of newsprint and the paperboys folded them into little tiny squares (which I thought was fascinating) and tossed them onto everyone’s doorstep each weekday morning—maybe Saturdays too.  People placed ads for things they wanted to sell—I remember my Mom buying me a doll bed from one of those ads.  I don’t think there was any subscription cost, it was just a free advertising sheet.  I also remember how they’d pile up on the doorstep of anyone who happened to be out of town for a few days.

I’d be kind of interested to know who ran the Daily Reminder and how long it lasted.

Thanks

Nancy (Fowler) Hoover

 

So – who has the answers? Do you know? Or, perhaps, only the Shadow knows…

6 Comments

  1. I remember the Daily Reminder which were still being thrown in 1969 and maybe into 1975. A Mr. Smith (he used initials, I think A. E.) produced it and he was an armature Lincoln historian. He just died about two years ago and I remember the Gazette touched on this daily publication.

    Before retirement, Mr. Smith was a clerk at Winter’s Furniture.

  3. My friend Johnny Schmidt and I used to throw the Daily Reminder. Can’t remember any of the
    details of who owned it, etc. I remember folding up up into that small square. It sure hurt when
    you got smacked in the head with one! That’s probably what I remember the most.

    I also sold copies of the “Grit” with a friend too. I think it cost a nickel??? Big money back
    then. Wonder if that paper is still around.

  4. I just asked Larry if he remembered the daily reminder. He sure did, got all excited and showed me how they were folded. Then he said, “Then we would do this extra fold and make them into a triangle and throw them at each other. If they hit you just like this, it really hurt.”

    He said they’d go around and dig them out of people’s bushes to fold into triangles and throw at each other.

    Then he said, “When we couldn’t find enough Daily Reminders, we’d throw mud balls at each other.”

    Boys! I tell ya!

  6. One day last year Ted Landphair & his wife Carol Highsmith called me on their cell phone & Carol who is a professional photographer was on a photo shoot in Kansas City——-(their home is in Alexander, VA. & they both work in Washington, DC.)

    Ted says to me ——-Girl– tell me what you know about Grit——–after I must have given him a very long pause——–he said –I mean the Grit Newspaper or magazine——-I said-well you are close——–you want to stop at Lawrence, Ks.——-& I gave him the names & addresses——-that Ted had packed away some place & was not able to put his finger on at that time——-

    Ted said– as soon as we are through in Lawrence– we are coming your way & want to see you & your hubby tonight & we want to record a few stories from you both —while we are in Kansas so I can broadcast later & you can give me some more story ideas while I’m here———then we are off to the balloon races in New Mexico!!!!!!!!

    The above story is the one Ted did about the Grit when they were here last year!

    Ted also did a story about Hubby & collecting used Grease for his fuel to commute to work & back each day!

    Ted has featured us in stories on VOA three times now——-& I have given him lots of story ideas———

    Hope you liked the Grit Story!!!!!!!!!!

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