Word: caf
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Paris and vicinity within 60 miles absorb half the circulation, so that even as a metropolitan paper it is twice the size of an American daily. Within this radius the papers are distributed by small cars and cyclists to thousands of cafés. These cafés, opening early in the morning, make their profit by feeding the news agents and news vendors who come for their supply of Petit Parisiens. A corps of 15 super-inspectors and 60 district chiefs is on the move from dawn till sunset to keep the circulation booming in every quarter of Paris...
Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K. Thaw: "I was arrested. They raided the El Prinkipo Café in ' Cabaret Row,' Atlantic City, where I sing and dance. They seized considerable liquor. They held Alfred Macdonald and me as alleged proprietors...
...order to please U. S. tourists some proprietors of cafés and night restaurants in the Latin Quarter and Montmartre decided to ignore the national motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and bar Negroes from entering their establishments...
Since the forcible ejection of pugilist Siki from the New York Bar in Paris, discussion of Negro rights has become serious. Even the Chamber of Deputies is going to discuss the question of whether a café proprietor has the right to eject black Frenchmen...
Since being bitten by a lion in a Paris café, Battling Siki has faded from the public eye. He takes the opportunity to regain a place in the news columns by refusing publicly an alleged offer from Tex Rickard of $10,000 to fight Kid Norfolk, American Negro, in New York this summer. Siki explains that since his experience with Mike McTigue in a Dublin ring he has become convinced that he can get a square deal "nowhere in the world outside of continental Europe...