News 139: Inconvenient to buy a newspaper which publishes the news twelve hours before the others. －How is it that I buy your newspaper and I don't find any news in it today! － Sir, today's news was in yesterday’s paper!..

People: Daumier, Honoré
Time: 1848
Owner Organization: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

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