Sensational by Kim Todd (chromebook ebook reader .txt) 📕

“Colored Woman’s Congress.”

“When I speak of the colored people”: Matthews, “Redemption,” 57.

“fearlessly and unobserved” and “her personality and natural”: Davis, Lifting, 21–22.

“If you are going to try to exist”: Evening World, December 9, 1888, 5.

“No working girl can live comfortably”: Ibid.

“As the days and the weeks went on”: Banks, Autobiography, 215.

“self-assertive and combative disposition”: Ibid., 204.

“Above the boards and councils”: New York Journal, December 3, 1897, 6.

“timid and dull, as bankrupt”: New York Journal, December 31, 1897, 8.

“Chief much broken”: Alfred Butes to John Norris, December 31, 1897, Box 1, Folder 1897 December, LCPP.

Chapter 15: All Together in New Bedford (1898)

“came from the Atlantic, Pacific”: Melville, Moby Dick, 28.

“Friend Doll” and other quotations from this letter: Eva McDonald Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, July 19, 1891, Folder: Letters 1891, MHSDP.

“It is a hard struggle” and other quotations from this letter are from Eva McDonald Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, August 20, 1891, Folder: Letters 1891, MHSDP.

“baby being then considerably older”: Frank Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, May 10, 1892, MHSDP.

“I don’t think I shall ever be content”: Eva McDonald Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, July 19, 1891, Folder: Letters 1891, MHSDP.

“She was the most selfish”: Reminiscences of Eva MacDonald Valesh: Oral History, 1952. A letter from her sister is included in the copy held at the Minnesota Historical Society.

“loss of self respect”: Star Tribune, November 6, 1898, 27.

“an impossible assignment” and other quotations about reporting this suicide story: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.

“terror of work, of monotony”: New York Journal, September 2, 1897, 5.

“I want an exclusive story”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.

“She has good looks to recommend her”: New York Journal, September 2, 1897, 5.

“suicide editor” and “it was gruesome work”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.

“these things must be done artistically”: Star Tribune, November 6, 1898, 27.

“By taking these liberties”: Kois, “Facts,” https://slate.com/culture/2012/02/the-lifespan-of-a-fact-essayist-john-dagata-defends-his-right-to-fudge-the-truth.html.

“a great paper has a duty” and “may wield an enormous”: Star Tribune, November 6, 1898, 27.

“Of course, we are a bit sensational” and other quotations from this scene: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.

“A man, you see”: WLHBH.

“Sit down!” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.

“the Journal’s special commissioner to the cotton strike”: New York Journal, January 19, 1898, 1.

“The woes of the 4,000 women”: WLHBH.

“Grim Silence Everywhere”: Ibid.

“her ragged gown about her” and “The New England mill operatives”: Ibid.

“unutterable degradation—the degradation”: Ibid.

“a howling wind might blow”: Ibid.

“Yesterday’s story was mainly”: Ibid.

“a few degrees lower, if such a thing”: Ibid.

“America’s a cruel country”: Ibid.

“Could you suggest any other plan”: Ibid.

“Her bravery is not”: Ibid.

“I will not be fined”: Ibid.

“interesting and unique personality” and “roused all England”: Ibid.

“who obtained situations in the homes”: Ibid.

“a friend of the poor workers”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 337.

“such clean houses they keep” and “I never saw”: WLHBH.

“Write up some of the happy things”: Ibid.

“one of the happiest and brightest”: Ibid.

“Little Lord Fauntleroy”: Ibid.

“Jolly Strikers Who Don’t Whine”: Ibid.

“Weavers on all common looms”: Ibid.

“The Mill Weaver’s Kiss of Death”: Ibid.

“One newspaper woman couldn’t find enough”: Ibid.

“These good people claim” and “There may be cases”: Ibid.

“I have called you together” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.

“pitiable object”: Ibid.

“You are out on strike in New Bedford?” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.

“The two women were evidently”: Boston Globe, February 9, 1898, 5.

“sensational yellow journalism” and other quotations from this scene: Boston Globe, February 11, 1898, 6.

“Choke her off” and “This woman carries nothing”: WLHBH.

Chapter 16: Reversal of Fortune (1898–1912)

“Maine Explosion Caused by Bomb or Torpedo?” and circulation figures: World, February 17, 1898, 1.

“Blanco Reports to Spain That It Was an Accident”: Ibid., 2.

“Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy”: New York Journal, February 17, 1898, 1.

“War! Sure!”: New York Journal, February 17, 1898, 1.

“Congress Declares War”: New York Journal, April 25, 1898, 1.

“We Pilfer the News”: Quoted in Procter, Hearst, 124.

“possessed in common the traits”: Roosevelt, Rough Riders, 19.

“services to liberty”: Quoted in Procter, Hearst, 127.

“We are indeed accustomed to finding truth”: Hawthorne, Evangelina, 17.

“Does Our Flag Shield Women?”: New York Journal, February 12, 1897, 1.

“the American government declines”: New York Journal, February 14, 1897, 42.

“It is true that I was actively engaged in the conspiracy as far as I could be”: World, February 15, 1897, 1.

“The fair young female journalist” and “Every beautiful newspaper woman”: Brisbane, “Great Problems,” 545–46.

The “New Woman in Journalism”: Hartford Courant, March 12, 1898, 8.

“I have always advocated that weavers”: WLHBH.

“God pity those who could not at command”: Banks, Autobiography, 237.

“I am not here to detail the serious”: Quoted in Freeman, Kit’s Kingdom, 109.

“in the grand style such”: Ibid., 110.

“one hundred and thirty-three men”: Ibid., 118.

“Old Glory over Santiago,” “The ceremony of hoisting the Stars and Stripes,” and circulation figures: New York Journal, July 18, 1898, 1.

“You provide the pictures”: Campbell, Yellow Journalism, 85.

“The paper is a jest”: Irving Bacheller to Don Carlos Seitz, April 12, 1900, Box 1, CUWP.

“We must heed it in every department”: Meeting minutes, November 28, 1898, Box 1, Folder 1898 August–Dec, LCPP.

“corrupts, depraves, degrades, or injures”: Buffalo Weekly Express, October 13, 1898, 4.

“The latter simply prefer scandal”: Commander, “Significance,” 154–55.

“The Journal has too sincere a sympathy”: Thornton, “When a Newspaper,” 110.

“I have yet to meet the woman”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 338.

“seamy side” and other quotations from this letter: Elizabeth Banks to Wm. Morris Colles, December 10, 1901, UTBP.

“But why are you here?”: Crane, Active, 160.

“Henrietta, however, does smell”: James, Portrait, 131.

“Of all horned cattle, deliver me”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, April 12, 1891, 4.

“whose thoughts reach beyond their own livelihood” and other quotations from this article: Pulitzer, “College,” 658.

“private detective”: Editor and Publisher, August 20, 1910, 5.

“Was any decision reached”: New-York Tribune, March 23, 1912, 7.

“the man with the muck rake” and other quotations from this speech: Bismarck Tribune, April 16, 1906, 1.

“On the one hand, that action”: Sawaya, Modern Women, 81.

Chapter 17: In the Wake (1898–1900)

“so brazen and defiant”: New-York Tribune, March 30, 1905, 5.

“Let women and girls become enlightened”: Matthews, “Dangers,” 62–69.

“The city does not need to throw back”: Sun, September 14, 1897, 6.

“The White Rose Mission was organized”: New York Evening