MIDGET VILLAGE NEWS, Chicago, June, 1933  

* Chicago Century Progress International Exposition

The masthead notes: "The World's Smallest Newspaper". This is the volume 1, number 1 issue.
This newspaper is not about a small village, but rather about a community of little people, created during the Expo Chicago in 1933. The Midget village, populated by Lilliputians, is a miniature-scale reproduction of the old Bavarian town of Dinkelspuhl, one of the few fortified towns in Europe. It was inhabited by115, had 45 buildings, its own municipal building, police, fire brigade, church, school, craft shops featuring dwarfs, miniature taxis, a petrol station and this newspaper. The town's mayor was Major Doyle, 85 centimeters tall. 
 Fourteen pages, 8 3/4 by 11 inches, nice condition.

Background: The 1933–1934 Chicago Century of Progress International Exposition featured the wildly popular Midget Village (or Lilliputian Village), a scaled-down European-style settlement populated by members of Leo Singer's troupe—a notable group of international performers with dwarfism. Designed as a fully operational miniature town complete with its own mayor, fire department, and theater, the attraction represented a pivotal intersection of human oddity exhibitions, depression-era economic survival, and pop culture evolution. While viewed today through the lens of early 20th-century entertainment exploitation, the village provided steady income and relative autonomy for its residents during the Great Depression, while simultaneously serving as the primary recruiting ground for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer producers who transformed these exact performers into the iconic Munchkins of the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz.