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Hazeline Cream and Kepler Extract were made in England by Burroughs, Wellcome &

Co., Manufacturing Chemists. Wellcome was founded in London in 1880 by Henry

Wellcome and Silas Burroughs. They established a branch in NY in 1906 and started a

manufacturing laboratory in New York in 1908.

Burroughs, Welcome invented the name

―

Tabloid

‖

and registered it as a trademark in

England in 1884. The firm used the name on its full range of products. Within a very

short time,

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Tabloid

‖

became a household word and was used indiscriminately in

reference to all types of tablets. By 1901 the term

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Tabloid journalism

‖

appeared and in

1918 small sheet newspapers were referred to as

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Tabloids

‖

. Today a

―

Tabloid

‖

is

widely used for newspapers which are usually well illustrated and contain sensational

material.