# Newspaper editions in the past **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-editions-in-the-past/720765 "2015-05-25T02:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-editions-in-the-past/720765/7 "2015-05-25T14:36:51Z")
Many questions are answered in SDMB’s own _Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia_ thread. > [@Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/24316): > > William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper magnate of fantastic extravagance. He abandoned his plan to rescue Alfred Dreyfus from Devil’s Island in order to devote complete attention to the Spanish-American War, which he started almost singlehandedly. Although his circulation boomed during the War, he took huge losses, in part due to the expense of printing “Extras.” The _New York Journal_ printed up to 40 separate extra editions on some days. During this period, almost as many extras were published by Hearst’s competitor, Joseph Pulitzer’s _New York World_. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-editions-in-the-past/720765)._