Japes continued,
"Restaurateur and former printer, Bunkie Fuzzbutton was an apprentice here in the 1890s before striking out on his own. Furthermore, Fuzzbutton’s grandfather was Maximus Tornblatt started a journal, The Harried Hessian, after emigrating from Germany in the mid-1800s. Tornblatt’s genius was his innovative roving news wagon which roamed the upper Midwest gathering and disseminating things Tornblatt found interesting. Before his death in 1883 Tornblatt expanded his fortune buying up several small papers (The Wayne Whig, The Ashwaubenon Commoner, The Round Prairie Witness and the Dewit Register). In 1884 Tornblatt sold his papers to Mortimer S. Mitone. Mitone consolidated the roving news into Spurious Nib in 1885. As part of the buyout the new owner agreed to hire some of Tornblatt’s family which is how the paper eventually ended up with a Fuzzbutton.
Fuzzbutton was pressed into service as a printer’s devil eventually surpassing the best typesetter in the shop. Alas, one can only speculate what would have happen to the Spurious Nib had Bunkie stayed at the presses and rose through the ranks of the Spurious Nib. Perhaps the paper would have again been under the great auspices of the founding family.
The Fates pushed Fuzzbutton into crepes and Fortune smiled upon Mortimer S. Mitone who was enamored with the business of publication."
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