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...without humor, Editor Barzini described a little-suspected shortcoming of the tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
...Boxley was promptly arrested, lodged in the jail at Trenton, a neighboring village. That night several thousand people milled about the jail, beat on its door, demanded Joe. The officials slipped Joe out a back way and carried him to Alamo, put him in the jail there. It was after 3 a. m. Joe lay down in his cell, dozed...
Mayor Hague has been under investigation by a Republican legislature at Trenton. The charges against him have been municipal graft and corruption. The potent Jersey Journal has raked him with editorial criticism. Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague...
...Shantung Coast heard firing, and presently four auto trucks piled with Nationalist wounded dashed into the city. No correspondent dared venture out into the battle area, and when Nationalist officials in Chefoo announced a "sweeping victory" they were gravely suspected of exaggeration. From Manila the U. S. cruiser Trenton set out for Chefoo, where three Japanese destroyers and one British gunboat already...
...years. It agreed to pay 10% on United N. J. R. R.'s $20,876,800 outstanding capital stock. And dire would be the confusion should Pennsy break this Methuselean lease. Passengers from Philadelphia would climb out at the N. Y.-N. J. state line at Trenton, pray for motor lorries to carry them to Jersey City, whence they might proceed through Pennsy tunnels to Manhattan...