read in the papers?

Does " I'd read in the papers that boys and girls were coming home.." mean " I'd read in the papers that (the papers described how) boys and girls were coming home..."?

Context:

State Representative John W. Butler , a Tennessee farmer and head of the World Christian Fundamentals Association , lobbied state legislatures to pass anti-evolution laws; he succeeded when the Butler Act was passed in Tennessee.[3] Butler later stated, "I didn't know anything about evolution... I'd read in the papers that boys and girls were coming home from school and telling their fathers and mothers that the Bible was all nonsense." Tennessee governor Austin Peay signed the law to gain support among rural legislators, but believed the law would neither be enforced nor interfere with education in Tennessee schools.[4] William Jennings Bryan thanked Peay enthusiastically for the bill: "The Christian parents of the state owe you a debt of gratitude for saving their children from the poisonous influence of an unproven hypothesis."[5]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial