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Show FEWER NEWSPAPERS IN THE UNITED STATES Philadelphia, Jan, 80. That there aro fewer newsnapers In the unueu States than thero were a year ago Is revealed by figures presented In tho Amorican Newspaper Annual, published today. A yearong0 S number of dally papers was 2.17Z: tne 1912 Annual lists thirteen less. Now England has lost four dallies; New York four; tho middle-west nine and the western states 13 Thero were gains In the southern and middle-Atlantic sections. Weekly and semi-weekly newspapers newspa-pers are also fewer in number. The 1912 annual names 16,229 weeklies, forty less than In 1911, and G05 semi-weekly, semi-weekly, as compared with C17 in 1911. |