Plans to serialise it were dropped by the Ladies' Home Journal when the magazine's circulation department warned that a readership survey showed extracts might cause southerners to cancel their subscriptions.

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To add to the problem, he had been employed by the Examiner for 30 years but not consecutively. (He left school at twelve, and worked to send his younger brothers through Stanford University.) So when the newspaper eliminated its entire circulation department, my dad was not only out of work, he was out of any chance to receive a pension.

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In Wisconsin, a 2, 000-circulation paper caused quite a stir throughout the state when it wrote that the Department of Natural Resources was selling a beloved local bike trail to Disney, in a prank story that was posted online Wednesday and sent to print subscribers Thursday.

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