Paper size impossible to encounter ISO standard papers in day-to-day uses, with "Carta" (Letter), "Oficio" (Government-Legal) and "Doble carta" (Ledger/Tabloid) being nearly universal. In Canada, US paper sizes are a de facto standard. The government, however, also uses ISO paper sizes. There is an additional paper size, , to which the name "Government-Letter" was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group (PWG). It was prescribed by Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce to be used for US government forms, apparently to enable discounts from the purchase of paper for schools, but more likely due to the standard use of trimming
The Clarion-Ledger with the "Clarion-Ledger" incorporating the best features of the "Daily News". The purchase of both papers by Gannett essentially created a daily newspaper monopoly in Central Mississippi (Gannett also owns the "Hattiesburg American" in Hattiesburg, Mississippi), which still exists. Historically, both newspapers—"The Clarion-Ledger" and the "Jackson Daily News"—were openly and unashamedly racist, even by Deep South standards. In 1890, after Mississippi Democrats adopted a new state constitution to disenfranchise black voters, "The Clarion-Ledger" applauded the move, stating: "Do not object to negroes voting on account of ignorance, but on account of color. ... If every negro in Mississippi was a