'' The Daily News '' , later titled '' The San Francisco News '' , was a newspaper published in San Francisco , California . It was founded in 1903 by E. W. Scripps as a four-page penny paper . In its early years , it was the smallest of the several newspapers in San Francisco . It advertised itself as the " friend of the working man . " It was distributed only in working class districts : Mission District , Skid Row , South of the Slot . It specialized in short , easy-to-read stories one to two paragraphs long . After the 1906 earthquake , it operated out of a former " relief house " . In 1919 it had a circulation of about 18,000 . It changed its name to '' The San Francisco News '' in 1927 , and in August 1959 merged with Hearst 's '' The Call Bulletin '' to form the '' San Francisco News-Call Bulletin ''
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