Founding of television...

NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1927 



* Early television tests

* John Logie Baird



Page 6 has one column headlines that include: "GLASGOW LISTENS TO SOUND OF FACES" "Television Inventor Shows How Image of Every Substance Emits Distinctive Refrain" "Baird Describes Research" and more. See photos for text.

This was a very significant report concerning the foundi... See More  

Tiger Flowers 1st Negro middleweight champ...

TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Mass., February 27, 1926



* Tiger Flowers vs. Harry Greb

* 1st African-American middleweight champ

* Boxing - boxers



Page 12 has a one column heading: "GREB LOST HIS TITLE TO THE COLORED BOY" with subhead. (see) First report coverage on Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers becoming the 1st African-American middleweight boxing champion.

Complete with 12 pages, ... See More  

Bingham Canyon, Utah... Avalanche disaster...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 18, 1926 



* Bingham, Utah

* Avalanche disaster

* Mining - Miners



This 48 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "28 DEAD, 29 MISSING, AS UTAH SNOWSLIDE BURIES MINE HAMLET" "Avalanche Sweeps Down Upon Little Highland Boy in Bingham Outskirts" "Smothers Sleeping Miners" and more. (see)



Other n... See More  

Everett Buckingham death.... Omaha NE....

THE OMAHA MORNING BEE, Nebraska, February 28, 1925



* Everett Buckingham death (1st report)

* Union stockyards head



This 16 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "BUCKINGHAM IS DEAD" with subheads that include: "Short Illness Fatal to Stockyards Head and Leader in Civic Bodies" and more with photo.



Other news, sports and advertisements of the day... See More  

Sullivan, Illinois, mine explosion.....

THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, February 21, 1925  This 16 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "POISON GAS BLAST KILLS 51 MEN IN ILLINOIS COLLIERY; REMOVING BODIES OF DEAD" with subheads.



This tells of the Sullivan, Illinois, coal mine explosion disaster.



Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Light browning, few tiny binding holes along ... See More  

The death of Floyd Collins... funeral rites...

THE OMAHA MORNING BEE, Omaha, Nebraska, February 18, 1925



* Floyd Collins death - funeral rites

* Sand Cave - Mammoth - Kentucky



This 16 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "Earth Sinks to Close Up Cave Tomb", "Hundreds Gather to Hear Services on Man Buried 70 Feet Below Hilltop Altar" and "Rescuers Withdrawn". This is coverage on the fun... See More  

Floyd Collins becomes trapped in Mammoth Cave....

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 16, 1925 



* Floyd Collins rescue attempt

* Sand Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky



The top of the front page has a one column heading: "FLOODING DELAYS CAVE RESCUE WORK, 14 FEET FROM GOAL" with subheads. (see) Coverage on cave explorer, Floyd Collins, being trapped in a narrow crawl way within the Sand Cave at the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. Length... See More  

King Tutankhamen's sarcophagus opened...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 15, 1924



* King Tutankhamen sarcophagus opened

* Luxor Egypt - gold-cased mummy realized



The front page has a one column heading: "FEARS GREAT LOSS OF TOMB TREASURES" with subheads. (see) Coverage on the actual opening of the famed sarcophagus. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.

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Woodrow Wilson to be Buried...

THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL, from Kansas City, MO, dated February 5, 1924.



The front page features a three-line, two-column wide headline "WOODROW WILSON TO BE BURIED WITH SIMPLE CEREMONY" with a subhead "Former President Wished It So; Weeks Offers Arlington, But Is Refused; Coolidge and Taft to Represent Government". Also on the front page is a poem entitled "The Warrior P... See More  

Funeral of Woodrow Wilson...

THE BETHLEHEM TIMES, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1924



* Woodrow Wilson death



The front page features a nice banner headline:



"FUNERAL OF WOODROW WILSON ON WEDNESDAY"



with subheads and photo of Wilson. (see) Coverage on the death of President Woodrow Wilson.



Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 14 pages, light browning, minor margin wear, otherwise go... See More  

"Fatty's" Not Permitted to Inspect Egypt's Unearthed Tomb... They Nearly Ruined the Gold Cloth by Squeezing...

THE LANCASTER DAILY GAZETTE, Lancaster, OH., February 20, 1923. Small headline at the bottom of the page that reads, ""Fatty's" Not Permitted to Inspect Egypt's Unearthed Tomb- They Nearly Ruined the Gold Cloth by Squeezing", regarding King Tut's Tomb. Headline of the paper reads, "Fire Destroys Maple St. Church". Paper is in nice condition! See photo for additional details.

Dawson, New Mexico... Coal mine disaster...

THE WORLD, New York, February 9, 1923



* Dawson, New Mexico

* Coal mine disaster (1st report)

* Is a ghost town today



This 24 page newspaper has a two column headline on page 13: "125 ENTOMBED BY BLAST IN MINE WHERE MANY WERE KILLED IN 1913".



Other news of the day including reporting on the recent King Tut Tomb finding. Usual browning with little margin wear, otherwise good. S... See More  

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis...

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, February 20, 1922  This 8 page newspaper has a on e column headline on page 6: "Resignation of Judge Landis a Surprise in Baseball Circles".

Other news of the day. This issue is browned and pulpish at the margins with some margin wear and should be handled with care.



wikipedia notes: Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20, 1866–No... See More  

1922 William Desmond Taylor murder....

THE BETHLEHEM TIMES, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1922



* William Desmond Taylor shot dead



The front page has a one column heading: "POLICE RUNNING DOWN CLUES IN TAYLOR MURDER" with subhead. (see) Coverage on the murder of famed actor and director William Desmond Taylor which is still unsolved till this day.

Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 12 pages, light... See More  

Gates, PA Frick Coke Co. mine explosion...

THE BETHLEHEM TIMES, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1922



* Gates, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

* Frick Coke Company mine explosion disaster



The front page has a two column headline: "BODIES OF 16 MINERS KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION TAKEN FROM GATES MINE TODAY" with subheads. (see) First report coverage on the Gates, PA Frick Coke Company mine explosion.

Other news of the day. Complete in 14... See More  

A wealth of inventions and period ads...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, February, 1922, New York, New York 



This issue contains the following prints, articles and/or ads: America's Fuel Resources; Bridging the Detroit River; The Latest African Anthropological Find; A Ten-Year Naval Holiday; Airplane Racing and What It Means; Human Hair Under the Microscope; A Second Pompeii; A Peking-Suiyuan Railway of China; The Motor-Driven Commercial V... See More  

1st transcontinental air mail flight...

THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Georgia, February 24, 1921



* 1st transcontinental air mail flight flown

* Airplane

* San Francisco California to New York



This 14 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page:



* X-COUNTRY MAIL RECORD IS MADE

* San Francisco-to-Hazelhurst, N. Y., Hop Completed in 33 Hours and 20 Minutes



Tells of the very first transcontinental United St... See More  

Landis to determine if indicted players are banned or not...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Feb. 14, 1921 



* Chicago White (Black) Sox scandal 

* Baseball World Series fix trial

* Best title to be had ? rare as such



The top of page 18 begins with column heads: "BASEBALL GATES FOREVER CLOSED TO INDICTED SOX". Included is a small photo of "Judge K.M. Landis, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

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Early X-Rays for cancer patients....

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 14, 1921



* Harvard physicist William Duane

* Improvement in X-Rays

* Cancer patient treatment



Page 7 has a on column heading: "IMPROVED X-RAYS FOR CANCER WORK" with subheads. (see)

Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 24 pages, light toning, some margin wear and chipping, with a little unrelated text loss near bottom right co... See More  

The very beginning of a legendary stadium...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 6, 1921 



* Original Yankee Stadium is born

* "The House That Ruth Built"

* Site officially picked



Perhaps it would only be in a New York City newspaper that one would find such great reporting on the very beginning  of what would become a legendary facility: Yankee Stadium.  The top of page 20 has column heads: "YANKEES TO BUILD ST... See More  

Rudolf Schroeder altitude record...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 28, 1920



* Rudolf Schroeder breaks altitude record



The front page has one column headlines that include: "CLIMBS 36,020 FEET IN PLANE AND LANDS AFTER 5-MILE DROP", "Major Schroeder, Oxygen Exhausted, Loses Consciousness at Record Height Over Dayton", "Thousands Watch His Fall", "Partly Blind At Landing"&... See More  

Early space travel talk...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 5, 1920



* Professor Robert Goddard - Early rocket experiments

* Flight to Mars?



The front page has a very bizarre report concerning early space travel. Professor Robert Goddard was currently experimenting with early rockets during this time. The front page has one column headlines that read: "FIRST VOLUNTEER FOR LEAP TO MARS" "Capt. Claude Collin... See More  

Printed on board the ship that transported the President...

THE HATCHET, "Published On The High Seas", February 22, 1919



* Ship's newspaper : carried President Woodrow Wilson to Europe & back

* quite rare



This is an interesting little newspaper printed on board the U.S.S. "George Washington". As noted at the top of page 2: "A Daily Newspaper With The President Homeward Bound ", this ship carried President Woodro... See More  

"Beer Supply Low"...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 21, 1919, from New York.  1 column headline "Beer Supply of Nation is Running Low" "Brewers About New York Agree to Pool Supplies in the Emergency". This is the full issue and is in good condition. See photos for full details.

1919 Seattle General Strike...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 8, 1919



* Seattle General Strike

* Work stoppage



The top of the front page has a one column heading: "SEATTLE TO FACE ARMY RULE UNLESS STRIKE ENDS TODAY" with subheads. (see) Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.

Complete with all 20 pages, a few small library stamps in the masthead, generally nice.... See More