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SWR:
Sounds like you're from my hometown, St. Louis. We had both the Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch until the Globe went under. And the Post had the two pages of comics (one in color) every day, more on Sunday.
When I was in high school, my father and I ran a Globe motor route in the Central West End. One thing I liked about it was that the Globe was a six-day paper and we got Sunday off. Also, because the Globe was the morning paper and we started our route at 12:30 a.m., we never had to fight any traffic to deliver.
Being in the newspaper business myself for over 40 years now, I always advised my kids to stay out of it. But after the Globe died, a new startup called the St. Louis Sun was operating for about a year. When it died, my son, daughter and son-in-law were all working there.
They've never had any trouble staying away from the business since then.
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