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Details of a horrible crime... Thomas Edison & P. T. Barnum...
Details of a horrible crime... Thomas Edison & P. T. Barnum...
Item # 702034
June 15, 1878
ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT, June 15, 1878 The top of the ftpg. has column heads: "SENT TO SEE SATAN" "The Revolting Alliance Formed by Fiendish Quartet" "A Farmer & His Voluptuous Wife Their Victims" '"How the Latter Gave Battle to the Lecherous Brutes" "Three of Whom Expiated Their Crime on the Gallows". The article takes nearly two columns and reports the horrible crime in great detail. Also reports of the last moment of the 3 men who were hanged.
Page 10 begins with a report headed: "EDISON'S 'EAR TELESCOPE" "The Relief that the Inventor is Perfecting for the Deaf" "Conversation Carried on with Ease Between Persons Two Miles Apart--A New Devise That will Enable Doctors to Det4ct Disease" with the text taking over a full column. Also on article on P.T. Barnum.
Twelve pages, some rubbing near the top at the address label, otherwise good.
Category: Post-Civil War
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