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The Elkins Inter Mountain
Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia
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In New York, immigrants are eager to reach the U.S. but slow to learn English, as shown by one million readers of foreign-language newspapers, including 40 dailies in 23 languages at Ellis Island and numerous Italian and Jewish publications focusing on adaptation to new environment.
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IMMIGRANTS EAGER TO REACH U. S. BUT ARE SLOW TO LEARN ENGLISH
NEW YORK Nov. 23. (AP)-America may be the melting pot of the peoples of the world at least in adoption of our language the Americanization process is slow.
It can be gauged by the one million persons who read for foreign language newspapers in New York.
When the immigrant station at Ellis Island, where the melting pot first is to boil, there are published to daily newspapers in twenty-three different tongues. Their combined circulation indicates that one of every five New Yorkers reads a newspaper in a foreign language.
With of three persons in New York according to the latest estimate seven Jewish dailies not more than half the foreign press content in every issue.
And in the heart of the teeming lower east side is reared a golden nightly sunshine Hebrew, half American-the sign of the Jewish Daily Forward.
Forty foreign language dailies and a total of 15 foreign publications comes from city's presses every month.
The Italian have 31 publications of their own; the Jewish organs run second with 27.
They print what their public wants a public largely at first generation immigrants interested in adoption to a new environment.
Much, the is sensational than informative and if these immigrant bewildered to American comic strip least unwilling to learn.
He reads press ies on base ball, hunting and to sleepses for alien tools Carm credits aal loer Ivedions, untonlizntion annd mmale. pr hitlion ang tgin to learn.
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New York
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Tuesday, Nov. 23, 1926
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America may be the melting pot of the peoples of the world but at least in adoption of our language the Americanization process is slow. It can be gauged by the one million persons who read foreign language newspapers in New York. At the immigrant station at Ellis Island, where the melting pot first is to boil, there are published two daily newspapers in twenty-three different tongues. Their combined circulation indicates that one of every five New Yorkers reads a newspaper in a foreign language. With one of three persons in New York according to the latest estimate seven Jewish dailies not more than half the foreign press content in every issue. And in the heart of the teeming lower east side is reared a golden nightly sunshine Hebrew, half American-the sign of the Jewish Daily Forward. Forty foreign language dailies and a total of 15 foreign publications comes from city's presses every month. The Italian have 31 publications of their own; the Jewish organs run second with 27. They print what their public wants a public largely at first generation immigrants interested in adoption to a new environment. Much, the is sensational than informative and if these immigrant bewildered to American comic strip least unwilling to learn. He reads press ies on base ball, hunting and to sleepses for alien tools Carm credits aal loer Ivedions, untonlizntion annd mmale. pr hitlion ang tgin to learn.