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...result has been the "ready-made- newspaper-a paper full of syndicated news (i. e., identical articles furnished from one source to a large group of papers), syndicated "features", even syndicated editorials made of "boiler plate" (articles set in type on the face of meta plates, a column in width), "matrices" (composition molds bearing the imprint of type, pictures, etc., into which it is only necessary to pour type metal) anc "patent insides" (sheets of newspaper printed on one side, with articles, advertisements, etc., furnished principally to country newspapers. On the blank side the editor places his own articles advertisements...
Alice Calhoun is the girl and makes the unfortunate error of too precise and obvious make-up for a simple, pioneer primrose. But the men are men and the openness of the scenic spaces is only exceeded by their width. Such productions are harmless to all; entertaining to millions...
...must be pointed out that the Strand is something like half the width of Broadway and that (due to the crowd) a sharp walk of three and three-quarter miles per hour is even a shade more than improbable. In Threadneedle Street, in the city, it can be said that the people, who swarm like ants, go faster than the presumptive vehicles that dare transgress its sanctity. In England all fares are paid according to distance; taxis are cheaper than in New York...
...paper came out. It bore the names and trade marks of both papers, but it appeared in the type of The Sun and with The Sun's " make-up." Articles began two columns wide on the front page, and after a few lines dwindled away to one column width-as they did in The Sun. Evidence of The Globe's excellent staff of editorial writers was absent. A few "features" like the radio and school pages of The Globe passed over. Otherwise The Sun and The Globe is still The Sun. When the title is changed to show...
...many different varieties of expensive clothes as ever. The Dayton Photoproducts Company is said to have developed a practical film, made of paper, which can be marketed at about one-third of the cost of the present gelatine reel. The new product is said to be of standard width, hard to tear, imperishable and practically non-in-flammable-the new projection machine to cost in the neighborhood of $50, thus offering an opportunity for showing standard pictures in the home without great cost or serious risk of fire-two difficulties that have so far blocked all attempts toward "Every Home...