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 The rewriting with no new facts but with a new feature played up in the lead is illustrated in the following stories:

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Lead in Evening Paper.

After a week's search of all the cities of the state, the police found Mary Sheldon, the twelve-year-old daughter of Roswell Sheldon, millionaire paper manufacturer of Wilton, at the Park Hotel today where she has been living for several days. She had informed the clerk at the hotel on her arrival Wednesday that she was waiting for her mother who would arrive in a few days. When asked by the police why she had left home, she replied that she liked to travel.

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Lead of Rewritten Story in Morning Paper of Following Day.

"I like to travel," was the only explanation offered by Mary Sheldon, the twelve-year-old daughter of Roswell Sheldon, millionaire owner of large paper mills at Wilton, for running away from home a week ago, and coming to this city last Wednesday. She was found by the police at the Park Hotel where she told the clerk when she arrived that she expected her mother to join her in a day or two.

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Lead of First Story in Evening Paper.

A giant hippopotamus, a cook, and the ship's crew, as principals, enacted for 2,000 passengers aboard the steamship "President Lincoln" which arrived here today from Hamburg, a "near sea tragedy" last Tuesday when three days out from Southampton.

Otto Winkle, the fourth cook, was