What is in a name? "$25,000" say the Chicago Tribune and its lusty offspring The News (Manhattan). The public is offered $25,000 for a name. Afterwards the public is expected to buy it back many times over in nickels on the newsstand.
Announcing the publication of a new weekly with fiction, photos, fashions, patterns, fun, editorials, special articles, cartoons, and illustrations, the above newspapers offered $20,000, $4,000, and $1,000 in prizes for a name and a slogan.
The fertile minded readers of the two newspapers came forward...
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