Colonel Jefferson P. Snooker

The Argus (Melbourne), 18 August 1903

Does Mr. Pulitzer intend to have a professor of bead-lines at bis school of journalism? Knowledge of foreign affairs or of the higher home politics, or of literature, art, and the drama, are not required. But the “yellow journalist” must be able to describe in high-flown language how Colonel Jefferson P. Snooker eloped with Judge Cyrus W. Dexter’s beautiful young wife in mid-honeymoon, or how the lovely Mrs. Anastasia Vandepilter, belonging to one of the best-known families in New York, was thrice wedded and divorced within twelve months.