The Daily News Would Like to Know

S. l. (San Francisco): The Daily News, 1912. Good. Small broadside, n. d. (beginning of the 20th century); 8 1/2 x 5; off-white stock, printed in black; a bit of light spotting; a small nick to top edge; in about good condition."The Daily News" - a progressive, four-page "penny paper" - was founded in 1903 by E.W. Scripps. It targeted working-class residents with easy-to-read, short, two-paragraph stories, serving as an alternative to larger, more conservative papers. The current broadside, in the form of a questionaire, with six questions to be answered, signed, and returned to the paper, addressed mostly pressing local, as well as environmental issues, including the selling of Hetch Hetchy power to PG & E, buying the Spring Valley Water Company by the city, voting for alternate candidates in the case of the longest-running Mayor of San Francisco James Rolph's resignation, and so on.