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To mark our 175th anniversary year, we feature a different front page each week from past editions of the Ottawa Citizen. Today, July 5, 1913.
Front-page news didn’t always make the front page, at least judging by the July 5, 1913 edition of the Citizen, which featured a comic strip on its cover instead.
Not even Page 2 had front-page news, it being almost entirely devoted to a short story written by O. Henry.
Front-page news, at least on July 5 that year, didn’t show up until readers reached Page 3 (including a story on how to look after your horse on hot days; and another regarding four city garbage collectors who were fired for accepting tips).
But this was hardly uncommon then. Harrison Cady’s Jolly Jumpers comic, which featured Cap’n Ebenezer Hopfrog frequently failing in his efforts to woo Miss Nancy Rabbit, adorned the front pages of well over a dozen Saturday Citizens that year. (In the July 5 strip, Ebenezer turns down an invitation to go sailing with his friend, Caleb Rabbit, so he can instead take Miss Nancy for a picnic. But when “Eb” is distracted by the bugs and insects that are ruining their repast, Miss Nancy slips away in Caleb’s new sloop). Cady would later illustrate several of Thornton Burgess’s children’s books.
There appeared to be little rhyme or reason as to when Jolly Jumpers, or occasionally another comic, would make the front page. The first three Saturdays in February featured Jolly Jumpers on the front, while only one Citizen edition in each of March and April saw comic strips on the cover. And then May 10 saw the beginning of a 12-week stretch when only one Saturday paper didn’t – that of July 12, the front page of which touted the 50th wedding anniversary of Harry and Jane Brook, of 506 Gladstone Ave.
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