Are you really complaining about 15% of their front page featuring their opinion section? Your 1921 NYT example has "Broker is Slain at Bride's Door By Her Gar

Are you really complaining about 15% of their front page featuring their opinion section? Your 1921 NYT example has "Broker is Slain at Bride's Door By Her Gardener", which the Times would never feature prominently today, because it's basically yellow press. It also features some French pilot's unverified claims about a new record – something that would see HN storm the barricades today. There's a story there, right at the top, about a group of visitors of the Capitol being disappointed. I'm not entirely sure if it's trying to make fun of the congresswoman it mentions. But it does sound a lot more like today's opinion pieces than a straight news story.