Word: denvers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-eight years ago the city of Denver appointed a "public guardian and administrator," to care legally for its waifs, strays; and orphans. The appointee was a young man from Tennessee, Benjamin Barr Lindsey, who two years later became judge of Denver's juvenile court, which office he occupied ever since. Denver was not a soft town. And there was that in it, a scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant...
...through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes, and free but educated preferences-a genuine culture, in short. The Denver City Club was quick to offer Judge Lindsey a further hearing. He reiterated his thesis from the platform, adding points: "Chastity and continence are more theoretical than real. They are not natural. . . . Any effort to get any sense into our domestic relations is handicapped at the beginning by the confusion...
...cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That was who he was, Fred G. Bonfils; $800,000; Napoleon's cousin. Money! Power! Ambition! He could and would show the money to Bartender Tammen in the bank vault. Soon Tammen was back in Denver with some of the Corsican's boodle to see what he could do. His first few projects collapsed. Then the old Denver Post, a fly-by-night sheet, offered itself for sale at $12,500. Bartender Tammen talked $25,000 more out of his Corsican friend and became a publisher...
...Post of the Yellow '90s was little flimsier than its Denver contemporaries, excepting the historic Rocky Mountain News. The latter's name alone was sufficient to carry it through the jamboree that followed Mr. Tammen's advent, and until 1913 it was in the able hands of Sen. Thomas M. Patterson. But all other Denver papers soon wilted. As soon as the Post began to pay, which was very soon, Gambler Bonfils appeared upon the scene to collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst...
...Denver daily circulations before the merger...