Wright Brothers Scrapbooks

This is the first scrapbook of the Wright Brothers Collection available in Local History Room. The collection came to the library on Dec. 30, 1948, less than a year after the death of Orville Wright. One of his executors, Harold S. Miller, husband of Ivonette Wright Miller (niece of Wilbur and Orville Wright), selected the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library as one of the repositories since the Millers, and other Wright heirs, wanted the papers to remain in the Dayton area.

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Wright Brothers Scrapbook 1, Page 3

The Evening Item The demand for a daily newspaper on the West Side has become so strong that we have decided to begin about the 25th of April the publication of the EVENING ITEM a daily paper which will represent the interests of that part of Dayton lying west of the Miami River. The ITEM will be a five column folio. Thus the daily will be about twice the size of the West Side News which we have been issuing heretofore. It will be printed on excellent paper from nice clear type. We intend to make it neatest paper published in the city.....

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