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Said the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "There is justice in the world. . . . How comforting that must be to Mary?only 350 years after being killed...
...Action. Last week, Publisher Curtis resolved the Ledger's domestic difficulty in the morning field by purchasing The North American* for amalgamation, thus reducing competition. Then he commenced to publish The Sun, a new capsule sheetlet of "broad popular appeal for all classes of readers...
...epidemics, reported by each city to be well in hand, called forth fresh outbursts from antiserum faddists, notably Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle to vulgarians of "physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which...
Married. Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka, granddaughter of the late Joseph Medill, sister of Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and The News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, cousin of the late Medill McCormick, U. S. Senator from Illinois, to Elmer Schlesinger, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan. Each has been divorced...
...chewers' press, the "human interest" sheetlets, did they pass by an opportunity? Certainly not. The New York Evening Bulletin ran a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and began the story: "An event that is nobody's business and yet is everybody's business is expected at the White House, it is rumored. . . ." The Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet, ran two pictures of the Coolidges, was careful to say: "Inquiry among attaches of the White House has failed,however, to elicit confirmation of the story." Characteristic of these two journals was their employment...