Paul,

You wrote: "I remember as a kid in the Bronx (a couple of years ago) the shout of the newsboy on the corner yelling, "EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT." I think both the Daily News and the Daily Mirror each cost $0.02¢ at the time."

You must be really old!!! I was a kid in Brooklyn and I was born in 1953. When I was 8 years old I was a paperboy for the NY Post. All the newspapers cost the same at the time and that was 10 cents. So, Methusala, if you were around when the NY papers were 2 cents each, you have to be pretty old.