Roy Thomson assembled from nothing a chain of small-town papers and radio stations in Canada.

"The Daily News is a small-town paper in a very big town."

What I really ought to be doing,' he said, looking at the tape reels, 'I ought to be editing some small-town paper somewhere.

It was an item from a small-town paper stating that Thaddeus Culeth, well-known citizen, had been stricken with paralysis.

It's set in 1950's America and follows a brother and sister who try to find love in the personals column of their small-town paper.

It had become what any small-town paper should be--a lively observer of current events, a recorder of history, an occasional commentator on politics and social issues.

Hector Cantú created his first newspaper cartoon at age 12 in a small-town paper owned by his brother.

The result was a job that paid little more than room and board with a small-town daily paper and job printer.

Editions of the Sentinel, distinctly a small-town paper, averaged between sixteen and thirty-two pages.

The Daily Sun was a small-town paper, and the publisher's office looked it.