Other media accounts referred to the jobs of Jones’ family; her father was identified as a cab driver or stagecoach driver and her uncle as a butler, which at the time were understood to be positions held mainly by black people. The Hearst-owned tabloid "New York Daily Mirror", however, ran a front-page banner headline: "RHINELANDER WEDS NEGRESS/Society dumbfounded." And the black newspaper "The Pittsburgh Courier" referred to both parties' races, with the front-page headline "Caucasian '400' Stunned Over Marriage of White Millionaire to Colored Beauty." Most larger city papers were wary of printing such a scandalous story, deferential to or fearful of the Rhinelanders' wealth and prominent social status.