THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, May 31, 1934 

* Dust Bowl - Great Depression era 
* Midwest farms face devastation 

The top of the front page has a five column headline: "U.S. Ready to Slaughter a Million Cattle as Drought Scorches Midwestern Farms, Threatening Crop Curtailers with Famine" with subheads. (see images) 
Complete with all 22 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, small library stamp within the masthead, generally good. 

Background: This May 31, 1934 issue of The Detroit Free Press serves as a stark historical artifact capturing the overlapping crises of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the fierce political battlegrounds of the New Deal era. The front-page headline detailing the impending emergency slaughter of a million starving cattle underscores the devastating severity of the 1934 drought, which crippled midwestern agriculture, depleted the nation's water supplies, and left millions of livestock facing imminent starvation. Critically, the publication highlights the profound irony and political vulnerability of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's (AAA) "crop curtailment" policies; just as the federal government was actively paying farmers to artificially restrict production to raise cratering market prices, nature intervened with a catastrophic drought that raised the immediate, terrifying specter of widespread famine. Beyond the environmental tragedy, this specific 22-page artifact is historically significant because it encapsulates the exact moment the federal government pivoted from structural economic planning to emergency survival triage—initiating massive livestock buyout and relief programs—while providing a vivid, localized window into how industrialized cities like Detroit witnessed and debated the reshaping of American federal power, agricultural economics, and environmental policy.