Bold stands
Conventional wisdom: Don’t look for brash new policies when Republicans and Democrats adopt party platforms at their national conventions (Page A3). That’s because the parties want to avoid anything that might turn off a handful of sought-after undecided swing voters in a few counties in Ohio who could decide the election.
That could be why the Democrats are expected to forcefully support baseball and hot dogs, while the Republicans will wholeheartedly endorse apple pie — but they’re not so sure about the bailout of Chevrolet.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1920, pioneering radio station 8MK in Detroit began daily broadcasting (Today in History, Page A2).
There were a few similarities with today’s AM stations. For example, in the traffic report, motorists were advised to avoid Farm-to-Market Road near Dearborn, due to a dead draft horse and overturned rag-picker’s cart blocking the roadway.
Frontiers of free enterprise: Two brothers in Rye Brook, N.Y., have come up with a novel marketing concept: advertising printed on toilet paper (Page A3).
“Your Ad Here” suddenly doesn’t seem like a very appealing sales pitch.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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