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...extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror. The paper was a copy of the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet. In huge black capitals across its top leered the headline QUAKE SHAKES CITY. Beneath was a picture of the famed skyline of lower Manhattan, evidently taken from an airplane...
...Jericho could tell them more than the News announced was unlikely. They resigned themselves, waited. Next afternoon, earlier than usual, the man walked along the wagon-road to the village, bought his customary copy of the News, and, in addition, a copy of a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet known to the scornful as the Evening Pornographic, but to its readers simply as the Graphic. With trembling fingers, he scuffled the pages of these publications, looking for news about the devastated city...
...example, the New York Evening Graphic. Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, property ? of Bernarr Macfadden, planned a Crossword Puzzle Contest. Others copied it and one even went to the extent of printing the probable answers of the Graphic's puzzles (TIME, Feb. 2). But the crossword puzzle contest wore out; and the Graphic promptly announced a new contest, or series of contests?$150 a day in prizes for the last line of incomplete limericks to be published...
Divorced. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor, cinema actress, whose engagement to Pugilist Jack Dempsey has been long reported) from one Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, in Philadelphia. She charged cruel and barbarous treatment. Said the Daily Mirror, Manhattan, gum-chewers' sheetlet: "It now appears as if a romance started when Jack was a gangling youth and Estelle was a giggling girl would lead to wedding bells...
...extent of that reception, as you may be with the reception accorded to you here, but you will find as you proceed along the homestretch that these are but the first evidences of the feelings which all Americans long to show to you." Said the Daily Worker, bitter sheetlet of Chicago Communists: "Thousands of morons are gathering at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pioneers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that the King of Afghanistan...