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average, I have nine calls for clippings, daily. Since most of the clippings are
returned to my files, I average a dollar and eighty cents an order. I deliver and
make the collections myself.”

Frequently meeting a problem of a group of persons, such as artists, provides
a service which is invaluable to the group, and at the same time, is highly
profitable to you. A similar service for artists may be started in any town
where there are enough artists to make a clipping service pay. However, the
service need not be restricted to one locality. It may be expanded by mail to
include near-by cities or towns, where such a service is certain to be highly
appreciated. Practically no investment is required.

Starts Printing Business at Sixty-Five

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ALF a century ago, in the little town of Rossville, Illinois, Frank Frailey
decided to learn the printer’s trade. His stepfather owned the hotel in that
village, and until he became a “printer’s devil,” Frank had spent most of his
time making beds, waiting on tables, stoking the old-fashioned stoves, and
doing the many other odd jobs that turn up around the small town inn. But in
those days, the printer was the aristocrat of the trades, going to work with a
long frock coat and high silk hat. To a young man, the idea of becoming such
a grand fellow was fascinating.

So a printer he became, and a good one. In turn, he drifted from Rossville to
Danville, to Bloomington, to Springfield, and finally to the twin cities of
Champaign-Urbana, where he has spent the most of his life. For a while, he
worked as foreman of several of the local shops, and with the UrbanaCourier
Herald. “Dad” Frailey became known as a printer who planned each job with
as much feeling for craftsmanship as the painter who does a picture, or the
musician who writes a symphony. There are few printers today who can
equal “Dad” as a typographer. Soon he had his own shop in Urbana, and
leading business men went to him for their printing jobs, and the students at
the University of Illinois for their dance programs.