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Item # 726240
February 11, 1924
THE DAY, New London, Conn. Feb. 11, 1924 

* Broadway actress Louise Lawson 
* "Broadway Butterly" murder - slaying

The bottom of the front page has a two-column heading: "POLICE SEARCH FOR SLAYERS OF MTION PICTURE ACTRESS" with subhead. (see images) 
Complete with all 12 pages, minor margin wear, some small binding holes along the spine, generally in very nice condition.

Background: This original February 11, 1924, edition of The Day is a hauntingly preserved time capsule of Jazz Age decadence and the dark underbelly of the "Roaring Twenties," featuring the explosive front-page coverage of the "Broadway Butterfly" murder. The two-column headline screams with the sensationalist fervor of early tabloid journalism, detailing the hunt for the slayers of the doomed Louise Lawson—a case of silk-stocking strangulation and high-society secrets that remains one of the era’s most chilling unsolved mysteries.