A 112 year old clipping service is still going strong. The SF Chronicle’s Rob Morse finds that not much has changed since 1888 when Mark Twain encouraged a nephew to start a clipping service so Twain could sell more of the clipping scrapbooks he had invented. Readers scan and mark newspapers, looking for various names and topics. Cutters slash out the articles and labels are attached. I suppose they must have extra copies for when different articles of interest appear on both sides of a page. Reading papers for clippings was a job that was glamorized for me when I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Francie takes a job at a clipping service and a paper lands on her desk one day with the six inch headline “WAR”.