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Writing about Mencken's column, "The Free Lance" in The Baltimore Sun (1911), Terry Teachout says "Mencken appears to have been one of the first modern American newspapermen to write a signed editorial-page column in which he commented regularly on major issues of the day." The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken (Harper Collins, 2002), p. 101.

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