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- ↑ John Bard McNulty, Older than the nation, The Life and Times of the Hartford Courant... Oldest newspaper of continuous publication in America. 1964 Pequot Press
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- ↑ Lester Cohen, The New York Graphic, the World's Zaniest Newspaper, Chilton 1964
- ↑ Michael M. Greenburg: Peaches and Daddy, a Story of the Roaring '20s, the Birth of Tabloid Media, and the Courtship that Captured the Hearts and Imaginations of the American Public; Overlook Press; Oct 2, 2008.
- ↑ Lester Cohen, The New York Graphic, the World's Zaniest Newspaper, Chilton 1964
- ↑ Emile Gauvreau, My Last Million Readers, Dutton 1941
- ↑ "The Paper Chase". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
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