James M. He wrote for the weekly publication until the summer of After that, moved away from the area to take a job as a reporter with the Baltimore Sun covering the Korean War overseas. Mary Gilbert, who handles accessions and genealogy for the Potsdam Museum, said Cannon's son Scott Cannon had reached out to ask if the library collected old newspapers and forwarded a thick file folder and a scrapbook with clippings of all of the stories Cannon wrote for the Herald Recorder.
An additional box contains complete copies of each edition the paper in which Cannon had a story published. Scott Cannon had found the meticulously kept records among his late father's belongings. James Cannon III died in Gilbert said the clippings are significant because they were never put on microfilm, therefore none of them are in the North Country Library System's digital archives. Among the documents are a seven-page handwritten list of dozens of newspapers in New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio and Massachusetts he was considering applying to.
Gilbert said Cannon ended up reaching out to the St. Lawrence Plaindealer in The publisher at the time, Atwood Manley, had a full staff but recommended Cannon apply to the Potsdam Herald Recorder. The new owner and publisher, Sandford Dewey, bought the paper from Frederick Swan. In a letter that's included among the documents, Cannon says at the Herald Recorder that was writing 1, words per day, about three single-spaced pages, and also selling ads.
Cannon clipped and kept every article he wrote, in addition to saving a copy of each complete newspaper.
His stories cover a wide range of topics including local government, sports, and emergencies like house fires. Parkers found that putting a nickel in some meters bought only a few minutes of privilege. Pennies often brought a bonus of a full hour, but sometimes either coin produced only exasperation.
