For 10 months in 1929-30, subscribers to "The McCook (Nebraska) Daily Gazette" (a daily newspaper serving 33 towns in southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas) received their newspapers via air delivery with "The Newsboy," a Curtis Robin cabin monoplane. In an age when over-the-road travel was difficult and air travel was just emerging, reasons for air delivery included: (1) the condition of roads (the majority of the roads in the "Gazette's" circulation area were either dirt or gravel, with widely varying standards of maintenance); (2) increasing postal rates; (3) the general interest in aviation, which had increased greatly in the previous decade; and (4) the enterprising nature of the "Gazette's" publisher, Harry D. Strunk. Although a windstorm put "The Newsboy" out of service in 1930, Strunk succeeded in establishing a broader base of loyal readers through this effort. (Seventy-two notes are attached. A map of the circulation area, an appendix listing towns served and their populations, and an appendix showing distances conclude the paper.) (SR)