Death of guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, August 28, 1990



* Stevie Ray Vaughan death (1st report)

* Guitarist - singer - musician - songwriter



The bottom of the ftpg. has a report headed: "Stevie Ray Vaughan, Guitar Great, Dies in Copter Crash" with subhead: "The Grammy-winning performer had just completed a Wisconsin concert. Four others are killed." The article carries over to page 13 and in... See More  

Check from Cooperstown, 1837...

This is a genuine check written on the "Otsego County Bank" of Cooperstown, New York dated 1837. Included is the amount in the lower left corner with a signature in the lower right. There is a nice engraving of an eagle with an olive branch in its beak. Also a red ink cancellation.

An early financial item & great to have from this town famous as the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame... See More  

1984 Bhopal gas disaster.. India...

SUN TIMES, Chicago, Dec. 4, 1984



* Bhopal gas disaster - tragedy

* Union Carbide India Unlimited (UCIL)

* World's worst industrial disaster

* Chemical gas methyl isocyanate



Page 3 has a report headed: "Gas leak kills 410 in India" with small related map. (see images)

Complete with all 96 pages, tabloid size, nice condition.... See More  

Camp Floyd, Utah Territory... More problems with the Mormons...

NEW YORK TIIMES, Sept. 15, 1859  



* Camp Floyd - Utah unrest

* U.S. military installation 

* Used to monitor the Mormons



The back page has nearly a full column report relating to the Mormons, datelined: "Camp Floyd, U.T." and headed: "Interesting From Utah" "More Gross and Outrageous Murders--Alarming Condition of the Territory".

The report notes in... See More  

1973 Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" album release...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, April 12, 1973



* Led Zeppelin album release advertisement

* English rock band - "Houses of the Holy"

* Robert Plant - Jimmy Page - John Bonham



Page 53 has a full page advertisement for a music store in Manhattan focusing on the release of "Houses of the Holy" music album. (see images)

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1966 Julius sip-in... serving homosexuals...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, May 5, 1966



* Julius sip-in - Mattachine Society fight

* Serving homosexuals at bars - restaurants

* Dick Leitsch and Craig Rodwell w/ photo



The top of page 15 has a heading: "Three Homosexuals In Search of a Drink" with lead-in: "Civil Liberties" and photo of the three men involved. (see images) Great to have in ... See More  

Mary Vincent's 1978 violent attack told...

SAN JOSE MERCURY, California, Nov. 1, 1978



* Artist Mary Vincent's violent attack

* Arms mutilation with hatchet - ax

* Lawrence Singleton indictment



The top of page 22 has a five column heading: "Girl tells of rapes, ax mutilation" with photos of the victim and suspect. (see images) This crime was committed about a month earlier.

Complete 1st section only with all 28 pages,... See More  

Chiang Kai-shek heads for exile in 1949...

THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, Kansas, Jan. 22, 1949



* Fall of Peiping - modern day Beijing

* Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek

* Flees Nanking for Fenghua, Ningbo

* Republic of China (ROC) leader

* The Chinese Revolution of 1949



The front page has a nice banner headline: "Peace-Minded China Gives Up Peiping" with subheads and related photo. (see images)

Complete with 20 pages, a few s... See More  

Patton's Third Army battles along the Rhine......

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 27, 1945



* 1st & 7th United States Army

* Generals Patch and George S. Patton

* Rhine river - Rhineland crossing

* Limburg & Frankfurt, Germany



The front page has a nice banner headline for display: "7 ARMIES OVER RHINE; Patch Crosses River; 1st Races On 35 Miles" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display. Related map on page 2. A few rela... See More  

Last 4 Doolittle raiders rescued in 1945 China...

NEW YORK POST, Aug. 22, 1945



* Jimmy Doolittle raiders

* Last 4 rescued in China

* Japanese prison camp



The front page has a nice headline for display in bold lettering: "CHUTISTS FREE 4 DOOLITTLE FLIERS" with first report coverage on page 3. (see images)

Complete with 36 pages, tabloid size, a little spine wear, generally nice.... See More  

1990 Temple Mount killings... Jerusalem...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 9, 1990



* 1990 Temple Mount killings - murders

* "Black Monday" in Jerusalem - Israel

* Jews - Jewish - Judaica - Palestinians



The front page has a two column heading: "Israelis Slay 19 Arabs in Clash in Jerusalem" with subhead and related photo. (see images) First report coverage continue on page 7 with related map.



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1974 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" ad...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 31, 1974



* "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" opening

* American horror film - movie - Leatherface



Page 101 has a  5 1/2 x 4 inch advertisement (not including locations underneath) for: "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" for it's premiere opening in New York City. Through research, this film opened in NYC on... See More  

Albert Einstein in 1931...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 19, 1931



* Professor Albert Einstein

* New Unified Field Theory

* Gravitation & electricity



Page 14 has a one column heading: "Einstein Explains His Unified Theory" with subhead. (see images) I suspect this is one of the few publications to report this particular event as other titles in our inventory do not.

Complete in 48 pages, rag edition in ... See More  

1942 Doolittle raid of Japan.... official report...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 21, 1943



* The famous Doolittle raid of Japan official report

* U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell bombers

* USS Hornet aircraft carrier



The front page has a nice banner headline: "FULL STORY OF TOKIO RAID!" Nice for display. First report coverage continues on pages 8 & 9 with nice photos. (see) This was the official report on the Jimmy Doolittle ... See More  

Invasion of the Philippines... MacArthur returns...

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Mass., October 19, 1944



* General Douglas MacArthur returns

* Leyte Gulf, Philippines (1st report)



The front page has a four column headline: "MacArthur Calls On Filipino People To Revolt Against Foe" with subheads and photo. (see images)

Complete with 8 pages, light toning at the margins, a little spine wear, generally in good condition.... See More  

Anticipating trouble with the Mormons...

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 12, 1844  



* Nauvoo Legion militia - Illinois

* Mormons - Mormonism War ?

* Governor Thomas Ford



The back page has a report: "Mormon Troubles" which mentions in part: "Governor Ford, concentrated some 5 to 800 of the Illinois militia in the neighborhood of Nauvoo to frustrated the wolf hunt...he had writs issued against the... See More  

Supporting William H. Harrison for President...

THE MADISONIAN, Washington City, July 16, 1840



* William Henry Harrison for president



This issue has on the inside page a political cartoon print of a log cabin (for Wm. H. Harrison) and a heraldic eagle engraving with "Harrison & Tyler" on a banner in the eagle's beak (see). Much political reporting.

Four pages, a few small binding holes along the spine, generally in very... See More  

John Dillinger hunted in 1934 Chicago...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., May 3, 1934 



* Outlaw John Dillinger now in Chicago IL

* The city where he would be killed

* Post Little Bohemia Lodge shootout

 

The front page has a one column heading: "AUTO DILLINGER USED FOUND BY CHICAGO POLICE" with subhead. (see images)

Complete in 26 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally in good condition.... See More  

Jewish Holocaust... public reality... Nazi atrocities...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 14, 1943



* Jewish Holocaust being known for the 1st time

* Nazi-occupied Poland exterminations

* Lomza & Bialystok ghettos



Page 3 has small and somewhat discrete one column headings: "2,500 Poles Executed" "Mass Executions in Lomza and Bialystok Reported" (see image)

See photo for brief coverage on the ongoing atrocities in Nazi-occupi... See More  

1984 Run-DMC... beginning of hip hop music...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, May 15, 1984



* Early Run-DMC D.M.C. editorial w/ photo

* Beginning of new-school hip hop - rap music

* The Pretenders - rock band concert advertisement



Beginning on page 67 is an editorial with one column heading: "Run-D.M.C. See" with a photo of the group on the following page. (see images)

Page 69 has a nice full p... See More  

1947 airplane speed record broken...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 20, 1947



* Test pilot Albert Boyd

* United States Air Force

* Air speed record broken

* First jet fighter airplane



Near the bottom of the front page has a two column heading: "U.S. Jet Flies 623.8 Miles an Hour To Capture World Speed Record" (see images)

Complete with 42 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.



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1941 Atlantic Charter... FDR & Churchill...

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, EXTRA, August 14, 1941.



* Atlantic Charter issued (1st report)

* Winston Churchill - World War II - WWII

* President Franklin D. Roosevelt



The front page has a nice banner headline: "FDR, CHURCHILL MEET, OUTLINE JOINT WAR AIMS" with subheads. (see images) First report coverage on the famous meeting at sea between Winston Churchill and FDR which issued a ... See More  

1864 Battle of Totopotomoy Creek....

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 31, 1864 



* Totopotomoy Creek

* Dallas, Georgia



Among the front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "GRANT'S ARMY" "Our Forces All South of the Pamunky" "A Severe Cavalry Fight on Saturday" "The Enemy Driven Back With Loss" "Further News from General Sherman" "A Fight On Saturday Near Dallas"... See More  

Joe Biden suspends campaign in 1987...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sept. 24, 1987



* Joe Biden withdraws from race

* Due to past allegations of wrongdoing

* 1988 presidential campaign



The top of the front page has a one column heading: "Biden Quits Race, Cites Mistakes" with subhead and photo of Biden with his wife making the announcement. Amazing he would become president 33 years later under the same scrutiny. I suspect this... See More  

1938 - Robert H. Goddard... early rocketry...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, June 3, 1938 



* Robert H. Goddard rockets 

* Rudder for steering - invention 



This 42 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 23: "ROCKET SHIP GETS 'CATAPULT RUDDER' ", "Dr. R. H. Goddard Devises Means for Steering After Gas Propulsion Ends", with supporting text.

Other news of the day throughout.

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