[1] With the Day Book, Scripps sought to eliminate the often adversarial relationship between his editorial staffs and the advertisers that sustained them.
To his disappointment, pressure from the business community had at times forced the Cincinnati Post to temper its firebrand campaigns against bossism and cronyism.
In 1904, he outlined a plan for a newspaper chain, starting in Chicago, that relied entirely on subscription fees and sales.
Like his other penny presses, the Day Book championed labor rights while delivering a mix of politics and lowbrow, sensational content.
A.D. Condo drew about 400 installations of Mr. Skygack, from Mars, the first science fiction comic, which was syndicated nationally, in addition to his other strip The Outbursts of Everett True.