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🕵🏻‍♂️🎈Do I spy a Chinese spy balloon? Spotted between 4:15 and 4:45 from south St. Louis County, Missouri.

An image from a newspaper of "Today in History". Today's highlight reads "On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany." Other items include King Charles I executed, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the assassination of Mohandas Ghandi, the Tet Offensive, the death of Coretta Scott King and the first known case of coronavirus spread in the U.S.

Boy, today’s Today In History in the Post-Dispatch (web version) starts bad, stays bad and ends with a doozy.

I like that Siri can read notifications, but it went 0-for-2 on a message from my TV that “Southern Eel” is about to play “Illinois Street”.

A bronze plaque with raised letters. It displays "The Journalist's Creed" in full. It is hanging on a wall, shot at an angle, with sunlight and sharp shadows falling across the wall and the plaque.

Ten years ago today I was at an IRE boot camp at Mizzou in Columbia, Mo. learning how to be a data journalist. The Journalist’s Creed was written by Walter Williams, founding dean of the Missouri School of Journalism, in 1914.

An image of some text from a newspaper. It is in three columns. In the first two columns, the first line of a paragraph is the last line of text. The last one has a single word on the last line.

I know page design is handled at a hub and very quickly by people with too much to do, but this sort of thing still snags my brain when I look at a paper. Three stragglers at the bottom of three columns, and one of them is hyphenated.

“Today, an overwhelming majority of @stlpublicradio’s on and off-air staff are taking a historic step in becoming the first @NPR radio station in #Missouri to form a union… #WeMakeSTLPR (🧵)” @stlprguild on Twitter

I’m sure I’m not the first to make this observation but tonight it occurred to me that walking to bed in a dark house with your phone flashlight is the modern-day equivalent of using a chamberstick.

Nameplate I traced out of an old Sanborn fire insurance map, then inked and colored. Turned out ok for a first try.

Traced from an old Sanborn map and inked.