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Dateline 1913 — Editor looked almost 100 years into the future
With few changes, this newspaper’s prediction of a century ago very nearly sized up the newsgathering picture of the year 2009. Wrote Editor George Wilkes in 1913: “A newspaper of the future will use aeroplanes for long journeys, each edition will be carried by electric train and motor planes running on special tracks; with editions out every hour on the hour, day and night; news will be collected by wireless telephone; every reporter will carry a portable instrument in his pocket; papers will be issued in one-column shapes that will run indefinitely; and, for those who so choose, their news will be delivered phonographically.”
Sun Herald Memory Bank archives are researched and compiled by retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years. Jimmie Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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