''The Daily News'', later titled ''The San Francisco News'', was a newspaper published in

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. It was founded in 1903 by

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as a four-page

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. In its early years, it was the smallest of the several newspapers in San Francisco. It advertised itself as the "friend of the working man." It was distributed only in

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districts: Mission District, Skid Row, South of the Slot. It specialized in short, easy-to-read stories one to two paragraphs long. After the 1906 earthquake, it operated out of a former "relief house". Later special effects and

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pioneer

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was a sports cartoonist for the paper in the 1910s. In 1919 the newspaper had a circulation of about 18,000. It changed its name to ''The San Francisco News'' in 1927, and in August 1959 merged with Hearst's ''The Call Bulletin'' to form the ''

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''.

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