Excerpt from Clippings, the System and Index: An Inexpensive, Simple, Unlimited Yet Accurate Newspaper and Magazine Clipping System<br><br>Iipractically useless matter. Anyone, who reads current literature, can certainly find a great store of helpful facts in choice clippings from the press. When use ful articles, quotations, poems, statistics, maps, draw ings, and other information pass thru our hands into the store-room, they are usually gone forever, often with much regret later.<br><br>On the other hand, many people have been making choice clippings, yet those clippings, like the maga zines of others, are often stored away and beyond ready reference. Or their clippings may be close at hand, but, as is almost invariably the case, they are unclassified and hence useless for all practical pur poses.<br><br>Librarians, teachers, editors, authors, ministers, stu dents, and many others, have felt for years the great need of some system bv which to classify such passing information. They have desired that this material be so arranged that it may be within easy access from the office or study chair and obtained with the least possible expenditure of time and effort.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.