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NEWS CELEBRATES 100 YEARS AS THE VOICE OF THE CITY

For 99 years and counting the Daily News has been — as its old slogan went — the eyes, ears and honest voice of New York. Founded June 26, 1919, as the Illustrated Daily News, the first daily tabloid in the U.S. covered the city like no other newspaper then — or now.

As New York’s hometown paper counts down to its 100th birthday next year, we’re giving our loyal readers a look into our famed archives to help celebrate the centennial.

Inset above is the front page — which is called “The Wood” — from Aug. 8, 1919. Even back then, The News had the transit beat covered. The old B.R.T., or Brooklyn Rapid Transit, was scrambling to hire help and fill routes as train workers would soon call a strike organized by the American Federation of Labor.

The strike went on to paralyze the city and cause what current-day straphangers — and headline writers — could dub a Summer of Hell.

Check in every week to see how the Daily News covered the top stories of the day.