The Press: Prince!

Gum-chewers' sheetlets depend for their circulation upon bold features, vulgar "stunts", designed to be as easily comprehended and as greedily relished by the chewer as a fresh cud of Spearmint, Orbit, Beeman's, Black Jack, Beechnut, or Juicy Fruit.

Knowing this well, the Daily Mirror (Manhattan) splurged, with surprising success, on a topic that even a chewer would have thought to be as stale as a last month's gum-button under a seat in the subway:

LEAP YEAR—AND ED GUELPH† STILL A BACHELOR "Wouldst Wed Wales?"

"How'd you like to be the ball-and-chain of Edward, Prince of Wales,...

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