THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., Dec. 25, 1929 

* Fire at the White House (West Wing)
* Christmas Eve 

The front page has a nice banner headline: "FIRE DESTROYS HOOVER'S OFFICES; WHITE HOUSE SAVED AFTER FIGHT" with subheads and two related photos. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 22 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, generally good.

Background: This Christmas Day issue of The Springfield Union holds immense historical and collectable value because it captures the most devastating fire to strike the White House since the British burned it during the War of 1812. On Christmas Eve, 1929, while President Herbert Hoover and the First Lady were hosting a festive party for staff children in the main residence, a massive four-alarm blaze ignited by faulty electrical wiring was quietly gutting the executive offices. The sheer drama of the event—which saw the President, his Cabinet, and Secret Service agents frantically crawling through windows to rescue top-secret government documents while firefighters battled freezing temperatures that turned the lawn into a landscape of solid ice—made for a legendary media sensation. For collectors and historians, this 22-page artifact is exceptionally rare because newspapers from the immediate aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash were heavily discarded, and complete, un-clipped holiday editions featuring major historical breaking news are incredibly difficult to find. The dramatic banner headline and unique dual-photo layout make it a premier display piece of 20th-century photojournalism, freezing in time a literal and figurative trial by fire for the early Hoover administration.