Plans to serialise it were dropped by the Ladies' Home Journal when the magazine's circulation department warned that a readership survey showed extracts might cause southerners to cancel their subscriptions.

ECONOMIST: Dorothy West

In Wisconsin, a 2, 000-circulation paper caused quite a stir throughout the state when it wrote that the Department of Natural Resources was selling a beloved local bike trail to Disney, in a prank story that was posted online Wednesday and sent to print subscribers Thursday.

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