Rural newspaper's chair and cigar box distribution system 'ought to end up in the Smithsonian or the Newseum'' - Entrepreneur Generations

"The Evergreen Courant's famous chair and cigar box newspaper honor system ought to end up in the Smithsonian or Newseum someday," retired Auburn University journalism professor and Conecuh County native Ed Williams writes for Connecting, a subscription-only newsletter for retired Associated Press journalists and others. "No story about this south Alabama county seat weekly paper would be complete without mention of the old wooden chair that has 'sold' thousands of newspapers for decades from its spot just outside The Courant's office on Rural Street in Evergreen."

Nobody remembers when the chair was first used as the Courant's de-facto distributor, but most agree it's been doing the job for the Conecuh County paper since World War II. Courant owner Robert Bozeman III, the third generation to run the paper after his father and grandfather, said "All I know is that the chair was there when I was born and before so I would say it's at least 60 to 70 years old.

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