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Viewers with alarm of the possible inroads of the gutter-press upon the circulations of sound newspapers, were relieved last week. The New York Times, lodestar of U. S. journalism, announced that it has passed another high mark. In 1912 the Times passed 200,000; in 1918, 300,000. For the six months ending March 31, 1927, its Sunday and daily average was 414,990, an average gain of 22,295 over the corresponding period of 1925-26. As the Times itself admitted...
...Newark a Hip Sing yellow-man made the error of invading a Chinese quarter settled almost entirely by On Leong Tongmen. There were 26 bullets in his body when the police found it, like a blood-stained yellow tabloid, in the gutter...
...rumblings and the misfortunes of a certain Snyder family of Queens Village, Long Island, fought last week for the big black type of Eastern newspapers. In semi-respectable journals, China dominated on the average of five days .out of seven. But in the tabloids and in the full-sized gutter sheets, the Snyders maintained at least a four-day supremacy. It was an unfortunate crime-Father Snyder was killed; Mother Snyder and the other man were indicted for murder; Daughter Snyder, aged 9, was in tears. It remained for some worthy soul to preach a great moral lesson. Mr. Hearst...
...affiliated gangsters were also murdered last week. Alfonso Fiori, 36, the father of nine children, was found lying in a gutter with his head torn from its moorings by a charge of shotgun slugs. Benjamin J. Schneider, realtor and bootlegger, was shot to death in front of his home...
...intelligentsia . . . cannot be pleased with the "Gum-chewers standard" which you set in printing the gutter-like statements of Mr. Zweiger. Such a letter is not news, it is not literature, it is not even rational...