Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. 1, (Music) page 21, it is stated that in San Francisco "the orchestra under Hertz direction played Respighi's 'Pines of Rome,' introducing in a symphony orchestra for the first time, so far as is known, a phonographic record of a nightingale's song...
Even the quiet editorial page of the New York Times bellowed alarm...
...with a high decisive voice and little hands, made his opening address. While he spoke, a giant telegraph switchboard with 120 "positions" distributed his words to various newspapers; more telegraph wires than have been used for any news event* except the Tunney-Dempsey fight, crackled into action. The front page of the New York Mirror was covered with a picture of Mr. Mills kneeling in sad prayerful pose beside the open grave of his wife. The New York Times wrote about the trial as spaciously as if it were a polar exploration...
...July 16, Editor Payne cracked his whip and the Mirror started galloping. A full-page wash drawing showed the bodies of the Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills as they were found beneath the crabapple tree. The headline bleated : "HALL -MILLS MURDER MYSTERY BARED." The story insinuated that Widow Hall and her deficient brother "Willie" would be the storm centre of the new investigation...
Arthur Capper, potent Senator from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little...