The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-19
GOTHAM FACES DARK PERIOD
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 As New York's DaiIies S Ire Forced To Temporarily CurtaiI Their Publication COMPOSITE PAPER HELPS RELIEVE THE SITUATION
As Metropolis Is Without News, Papers From Other Cities Are Rushed In To Care For Strong Demand

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-(By Asso- ciated Press s.)-New York went with out its leading newspapers fc~ the better part of 24 hours today when strike of 2,500 web pressmen pre- vented publication of most of the city's morning and evening dailies.
 From midnight last night until this evening, the citys millions, most avid newspaper readers of the world, prac tically were cut off from news of their own and the rest of the worlds doings.
 The metropolis awoke to find it's breakfast and it's ride to daily chores made dreary by the absence of morn ing newspapers. Limited premidnight editions which were run off before the pressmen walked out had been exhausted by late theatre crowds
 An early edition of the New York Evening Post, run off by hastily re- cruited corps of pressmen, was the only one of the large afternoon papers to appear before noon and when that had been exhausted, ana the news stands, usually loaded with frequent editions of the afternoon dailies, were bare, and hundreds of raucous voiced newsboys were mute.
 Newspapers in nearby New Jersey cities. smaller local papers not af- fected by the strike and foreign newspapers hastened to take advan- tage of the situation, rushing thous ands of papers and scores of emer- gency newsboys to the more impof- tant traffic intersections where they enjoyed an unprecedented sale at premium prices.
 send Papers By Plane.
 One Boston newspaper sent copies of a special edition to the city by airplane while a local Italian paper, for the first time in it's history, put on sale an all-English edition. Many news stands presented the unusual picture of newspapers in half a dozen foreign languages and none in Eng fish.
 The newspaper famine was relieved in the late afternoon when a com posite newspaper representing joint iy the II afternoon newspapers at fected, appeared on the streets.
 The unique publication which bore the names of all the II newspapers in the usual typographical style used by each, was the result of conference between newspaper owners and of ficials of the International union; it was there decided that the papers would pool their resources to permit the publication of a six or eight-page newspaper to contain whatever ad- vertisements and news each of the dailies deemed it eXpedient to print.
 Across the top of the combined paper were the words
 "The combined New York evening newspapers"
 In a three column box at the up- per left side was a list of captions:
 The New York Journal, The Evening Mail, New York Evening Post, The Sun, The Evening Tele- gram The Evening World, The Brooklyn Citizen, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Standard Union. Brooklyn Daily Times. New York Herald.
 Above the central caption was the name of the newspaper from the shop of which the particular sheet came.
 Except for the usual heading and form of the composite sheet, the newspaper was similar to the usual
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