Small Amount of Text at Bottom of Last Column of First page

Question

I'm trying to create a document that emulates the style of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. At the bottom of the first page, they have a small "footer" with the received and published dates like so:

This isn't part of the footer; it sits at the bottom of the second column. The text above it flows onto the top of the next page as normal.

How would I go about creating a text area like this in a two-column layout with the memoir class?

\documentclass[twocolumn, article]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum

\textbf{Some text:} To go at the bottom
\end{document}

Answer 1

If you want the small amount of text to be part of the text, you can put it into the footnote. I don't use memoir, maybe it provides a better way to do this. You can locally redefine \@makefntext and use \footnotetext. Code:

\documentclass[twocolumn, article]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum,xcolor,array,atbegshi}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\received[1]{%
  \def\receiv@d{#1}%
}

\newcommand\published[1]{%
  \def\publish@d{#1}%
}

\let\SavedFootnoterule\footnoterule
\AtBeginShipoutFirst{\global\let\footnoterule\SavedFootnoterule}

\newcommand\receivedpublished{%
  \def\footnoterule{%
    \kern-3\p@
    {\color{blue}\hrule \@height .6pt \@width\columnwidth}%
    \kern2.4\p@
  }%
  \begingroup
    \long\def\@makefntext##1{%
      \parindent \z@
      \noindent
      ##1}%
    \footnotetext{%
      \begin{tabular}{@{}>{\bfseries\color{blue}}l@{ }l}
        Received:  & \receiv@d \\
        Published: & \publish@d
      \end{tabular}%
    }%
  \endgroup
}
\makeatother

\received{October 19, 2016}
\published{February 20, 2017}

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-5]

\receivedpublished

\clearpage

Restore\footnote{Original footnoterule}

\end{document}

Answer 2

I prefer tikz and atbegshi in this case like below; you can change the origins.

\documentclass[twocolumn, article]{memoir}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usepackage{atbegshi}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\AtBeginShipout{\AtBeginShipoutAddToBox{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]%
    \node [anchor=east] at ($(current page.south east) + (-30mm,10mm)$) 
{\textbf{Some text:} To go at the bottom };

\end{tikzpicture}
}}

\begin{document}
\twocolumn
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document}