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...scandals is dominated by the Daily News. For a time (about 1921) Mr. Hearst fought back by publishing a tabloid insert in the American, which did not pay out. Then he resorted to a tabloid of his own (he has several in the U. S. now) and his Daily Mirror, picture paper, is on the make with about 412,000 copies sold every morning...
...Angeles, Calif., Capt. John Olson of the S. S. Quinalt eyed himself in his mirror, removed his $500 diamond stickpin, detached his necktie, laid them on the shelf over the basin, shaved. Soon he gave a shout, raced from his cabin dived overboard, swam to the Quinalt's scuppers, trod water, cupped his hands beneath the pouring stream of wastage. His anxious frown became a glad grin when the $500 diamond stickpin tumbled out and he caught...
Died. Mengo L. Morgenthau, 67, president of the Mirror Candy Co., brother of onetime (1913-16) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau; in Manhattan; after a short illness...
...pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer Chubb," and contributed...
...notably the Pennsylvania and B. & O, offered last week new-type pullman coaches. Each car contained 14 private rooms, communicating if desired. Each room had a full length bed, folding table and chair, full toilet facilities with hot and cold running water, electric fans, shaded lights, and full length mirror. For travel in these new cars railroads that had them charged 1¼ fare for transportation plus the price of two lower berths for the use of the rooms...