Charles Chapin's story (Registro nro. 119262)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 20018406 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chapin, Charles E., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1858-1930 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Charles Chapin's story |
| 246 1# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Charles E. Chapin's story : Written in Sing Sing Prison |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-04-25 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | From the bottom -- Barnstorming -- Chicago "Tribune" days -- My first big "scoop" -- A murder mystery -- "Star" reporting -- A city editor at twenty-five -- Breaking into Park Row -- On the "World's" city desk -- Newspapering to-day -- The Pulitzers -- Newspaper ethics -- Gathering clouds -- Tragedy -- A "lifer" in Sing Sing. |
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| Creation/production credits note | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Charles Chapin's Story" by Charles E. Chapin is a memoir written in the early 20th century. Composed in prison, it traces a prominent newspaper editor’s climb through American journalism, his headline-making scoops, the culture of big-city newsrooms, and the personal breakdown that led to tragedy and lifelong confinement.<br/><br/>The opening of this memoir sets the frame: a publisher’s note recounts the killing of Chapin’s wife, his own letter describing a nervous collapse and intended suicide-murder, and his subsequent surrender. In an Introduction, Basil King describes meeting him at Sing Sing, argues that prisoners remain fully human, condemns society’s need for a “scapegoat,” and notes the author’s inward transformation. In “Why This Book Was Written,” the writer explains the monotony, sleeplessness, and grief of prison life, his failed attempts at immersion in books, and how a friend’s prodding—and examples from great authors who wrote in confinement—led him to rebuild himself through writing and to edit the Sing Sing Bulletin under a reform-minded warden. The narrative then turns to his beginnings: a fourteen-year-old paper boy who became a telegraph messenger, self-educated through voracious reading, and skilled in telegraphy, printing, and shorthand; an early courtroom-reporting humiliation is offset by his first published sketch. A detour into barnstorming theater follows—frontier tours, Deadwood episodes, and a sudden marriage to Nellie—before he returns to news, joining the Chicago Tribune and rising fast. He sketches newsroom leaders and colleagues and recounts signature exploits, including the origin of “The public be damned,” the audacious lake-borne pursuit of an escaping Chicago boodler, and an exclusive rescue tale from a shipwreck survivor—all establishing the tone and scope of the story to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Journalism -- United States |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Chapin, Charles E., 1858-1930 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Murderers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | King, Basil, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1859-1928 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/charleschapinsst00chapiala/page/n8/mode/1up">https://archive.org/details/charleschapinsst00chapiala/page/n8/mode/1up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78544">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78544</a> |
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