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Peggy Shannon plays a young female reporter who is fired from a big city newspaper, then decides to take over a troubled small town newspaper. She encounters difficulties with small town politics, getting advertisers to help keep the paper afloat, and issues with 1930s feminism in the resistance she receives from the towns residents to her attempts to run the newspaper. An insightful story of a womans determination to succeed in an era long before the womens rights movement.