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...HEALTH CERTIFICATES WILL BOBBED HAIR MAKE BALD WOMEN ? YES! It was announced that Mr. Macfadden had bought the plant of the old New York Evening Mail, there to publish a tabloid daily newspaper featuring material along the lines of True Stories and Physical Culture. It was understood that this sheetlet, as yet unknown by name, would make no attempt to compete with other Manhattan papers in the presentation of news...
...brought another infant, a real surprise, for the general public had only one day's notice of its coming. It was the Daily Mirror. Like all good mirrors, it presented almost a perfect image. In this case it was an almost perfect image of the Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, the Daily News. Their outward semblances varied only to the discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines, while over all and through all, garnishing and epitomizing, were...
...Daily News (so called "gum-chewers' sheetlet") published his picture on its front page. Caption: "TRIED TO FORGET.?J. K. Mitchell 'heavy sugar papa' of slain Dot King, returned with wife from Europe yesterday. They're shown leaving ship here...
...Cushing is the daughter of Reginald Vanderbilt,* aged 48. Said Cholly Knickerbocker, Hearst's "Society Editor": "The infant will 20 years hence dance about at the same débutante parties with his auntie." Said Débutante, Society Editor for the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, not yet 20, is the youngest grandmother in Society...
...obloquy. Consider the case of Gaston B. Means, summoned to testify before the Senate Committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty (see Page 2). Detectives, like diplomats, are hardened to publicity. Mr. Means may have pictured to himself the photographs of misbegotten individuals appearing in the Daily News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, or other kindred papers. The poor unfortunates had tried to hide their faces from the camera. As result their portraits were printed with such remarks as "the alleged - shamedly covering his face" or "the notorious - cowering before the camera...