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Daily Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee
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St. Petersburg journalists, Russian and foreign, petition the Tsar for badges to identify themselves at court festivities. The Tsar grants the request, allowing accredited press representatives to wear them at the next court ball to prevent imposters.
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The St. Petersburg journalists. Russian and otherwise, who are admitted to court festivities have just sent a curious petition to the czar. They ask to be allowed to wear on their dress coats some small ornament with the name of the paper they represent inscribed on it, by which they might be recognized as representatives of the press. The czar has at once granted the request, and at the next court ball all the bona fide journalists will appear adorned with their new badge. No one but an accredited representative of a paper will be allowed to wear the badge, the raison d'etre for which appears to be the fact that not unfrequently a number of gentlemen had gained admittance as press men who were much better acquainted with the art of blacking boots than with that of furnishing newspaper reports.—Montreal Star.
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St. Petersburg
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the czar granted the request; accredited journalists will wear badges at the next court ball to identify genuine press representatives and exclude imposters.
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St. Petersburg journalists, Russian and otherwise, admitted to court festivities, petitioned the czar to wear small ornaments on their dress coats inscribed with their paper's name for recognition as press representatives. The czar immediately granted this, and at the next court ball, bona fide journalists will appear with the new badge. Only accredited representatives may wear it, to prevent gentlemen posing as press who lack reporting skills.