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M. I.
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His humor and wit leaps out as he introduced a new club member, Milton I. Stewart, in the December 8, 1913 issue.
Stewart replaced William J. Betting, who previously represented the M. I. Stewart Printing Co. as a Rotary member. As Mackintosh put it, "The said Milton is hairy parent to Billiam’s Rotary representation thru divine right of being the boss of the M. I. Stewart Co. which Billiam represented."
By way of biography, Mackintosh began with Stewart’s birth date. "A small, hairless child of the male persuasion was introduced to the city on November 27th, 1877. Special Thanksgiving services were held in all Duluth churches, which practice has become nation-wide on the anniversary of the suspicious event."
Stewart’s education, described by Mackintosh, went thus: "Having graduated from the Duluth Central High School, he percolated thru into the classical climate of the U of M. Having absorbed all the unattached knowledge to be found there within the short space of a single year, he sought the scholastic shades of the U of Nebraska wherefrom he graduated after 3 years servitude."
Milt Stewart then began work in Lincoln at the Nebraska State Journal. Mackintosh wrote, "Having risen on this rag to the Himalayan altitude of City Editor, and then Managing Editor, Milt came to the Great Port of the Northwest and got a job in the City National Bank."
After a few years in Duluth, Stewart bought an interest in what became the Thwing-Stewart Printing Co. When Thwing retired, "Milt, and no other, became elevated to the dazzly heights of Per-resident of the M. I. Stewart Co.,"
Mackintosh reported. Mackintosh chided himself for getting ahead of his story. "You have left out the Most Important Event in all our hero’s hysteric career!" Six years earlier Stewart got married. As Mackintosh explained, "He hypnotized the fair daughter of Dr. Schlick – one Elfrieda Schlick – into assuming him along with the holey bonds of matrimony."
Stewart’s biography, according to Mackintosh, concluded with this statement. "From the poor, puny, pusillanimous printing of the past he has evolved a splendidly-compacted organization of experts. Wherein, we, his humble fellow Rotarians, may shine in his reflected effulgence. We have spoken." |
