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The St. Paul Globe, April 26, 1885, p. 2

An Ex-Newspaper Man's Position Explained.

H. Rothschild, who is at present doing a brokerage business, on being asked how he came to abandon the newspaper business to engage in his present calling, said: The past ten years of his life has been spent in the most wearing of work, that of the whilom newspaper man, and after establishing by the aid of his former partner, Mr. Chantler, the St. Paul Herald, he was as well worn down with hard work as one can imagine, and at the solicitation of relatives, sold out his interest in the paper and engaged in the business of general broker, placing loans on real estate, personal property and handling the various securities of the market, which business, while it generally gives a man the name of being "hard-fisted," he hopes by courteous and fair treatment of people, to prove remunerative as well as a beneficial change from his past years' work in journalism. He says he is meeting with success in both directions and neither does he mean to get the name of being the "Shylock" the Pioneer Press would have him.

It is not often a newspaper man abandons his profession, but Mr. R. is a young man of very energetic character and neither his manner nor personal appearance would indicate the nationality his name implies.

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