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LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 17, 1986

• "The Color of Money" film advertisement
• Grand Opening Day movie premiere in L.A.
• American sports drama (billiards - pool)
• Tom Cruise - Paul Newman - Martin Scorsese*
• Meas

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1936

• Lou Gehrig voted American League MVP
• New York Yankees icon - MLB baseball

The top of page 13 has a banner  heading: "Second 'Most Valuable' Player Award Bolsters

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, October 17, 1936

• "Around the World in 20 Days"
• "The Great Race Around the World"
• Three NYC journalists publicity stunt

The front page has a banner heading: "Ekins Set for

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 17, 1963

• Jean Cocteau death - French poet - artist
• Playwright - novelist - film director & more
• Surrealist, avant-garde and Dadaist

KILLEEN DAILY HERALD, Texas, Oct. 17, 1991

• Luby's cafeteria shooting massacre
• George Hennard - mass murderer
• Killeen, Bell County, Texas
• Best publication to be had - from where it happened

The banner

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, October 17, 1953 

• USS Leyte explosion fire disaster
• United States Navy Aircraft Carrier

The front page has a banner headline: "BLAST ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER KILLS 30" with

THE SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, Indiana, Oct. 17, 1971

• H. Rap Brown captured - arrested
• "Black Power" movement militant
• Violence at Civil Rights protests

The front page has a nice banner headline: "RAP BROWN

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Oct. 17, 1989

• English rock band SQUEEZE Performance
• Part of the second British invasion
• Madison Square Garden - MSG concert ad
• Halloween 5:

NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 17, 1864  This issue has much reporting on the Civil War, perhaps the most significant being a page 5 account with heads: "Guerrillas Again Along the Baltimore and Ohio

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, October 17, 1941

• USS Kearny torpedoed by German U-boat
• 1st U.S. destroyer attacked during WWII

The front page has a nice headline: "NAVY OUT ON REVENGE HUNT" with subhead and

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 17, 1945

• German Woman guard Irma Grese
• Nazi concentration camps leader
• Bergen-Belsen trials - Jewish holocaust
• "Beast of Belsen" "Hyena of Auschwitz"

Page 6 has a one column

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 17, 1974

• Lou Reed - American musician songwriter singer
• The Felt Forum concert review
• The Velvet Underground fame
• "Walk on the Wild Side"

DETROIT FREE PRESS, Oct. 17, 1971

• H. Rap Brown shot in NYC
• Black Panthers Party leader
• Minister of Justice

The front page has a one column photo of H. Rap Brown with heading: "Rap Brown Shot in NY"

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, October 17, 1931

• Al 'Scarface' Capone's tax evasion trial
• Would be found guilty on this day

The front page has a two column heading: "Capone Fate Is Due to Reach Jury Today"

THE DETROIT NEWS, Oct. 17, 1954

• Effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada
• Toronto, Ontario storm & flood disaster

The front has a nice headline: "71 DIE, HUNDREDS LOST IN TORONTO" with subheads and two

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 17, 1968

• Big Brother and the Holding Company
• Last concert w/ Janis Joplin before going solo
• Hunter College (NYC) performance advertisement

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1946

• Gordie Howe NHL debut
• Detroit Red Wings
• Ice hockey

Page 30 has a one column heading: "LATE DETROIT GOAL TIES TORONTO AT 3-3" with subhead and lineup. Text includes:

THE SUN, New York, October 17, 1907  This issue has fine coverage on the financial stock market crisis of 1907. The front page has: "SMASH OF HEINZE'S CORNER - WHOLE MARKET RUNS DOWN TO MANY NEW

THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1861  This was an anti-war newspaper that insisted slavery should not be abolished, so consequently much content has an anti-North bias.

Among the articles

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, October 17, 1885

• Chicago White Stockings - Sox

An issue with many nice prints, but perhaps the most sought after would be the nearly half page print of: "The Chicago

THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1861  This was an anti-war newspaper that insisted slavery should not be abolished, so consequently much content has an anti-North bias.

Among the articles

THE NEW AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 17, 1973

• Yom Kippur War - Suez Canal crossed
• Israel vs. Egypt - Syria & more
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab States
• Sinai Peninsula - Golan Heights
• Jews

NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 17, 1899

• America's Cup - great front-page sketch of the Columbia
• Review of Israel Zangwill's play, "Children of the Ghetto"

The front page has one of the better illustrations

THE SUMMARY, Elmira, New York, Oct. 17, 1914  An interesting newspaper  "Published Weekly by & for the Inmates of the N.Y.S. Reformatory at Elmira". as noted at the top of page 2.
Great content in

KANSAS KRITIC, Concordia, Oct. 17, 1888

• From the 19th century Frontier

In the masthead is; "An Advocate of the People; Defending Their Rights and Denouncing Their Wrongs".
Gregory's "Union List of

DUNLAP'S AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1792  The front page features 21 illustrated ship ad making this a decorative issue. The ftpg. also has a small notice for the "Cincinnati

WATSONVILLE TRANSCRIPT, Santa Cruz County, California, Oct. 17, 1879

• Rare old West publication

An uncommon title with articles including: "Comstock Quicksilver Mines" and most of page 3 taken up

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Extra, October 17, 1934

• Alice Speed-Stoll kidnapping for ransom
• Found alive and returned home
• Thomas H. Robinson, Jr.

The top of the front page has a four column headline:

THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT, North Carolina, October 17, 1940

• 1st lottery for U.S. WWII draftees
• World War II draft begins (1st report)

The front page has a banner headline: "Mighty Army Is Registered"

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 17, 1937

• Seabiscuit in dead heat w/ Heelfly
• Laurel Stakes - Maryland
• Thoroughbred racehorse racing

Page 11 of the sport's section (inside) has a banner headline:

BOSTON PATRIOT, Oct. 17, 1812  The front page has a lengthy article headed: "Presidential Election". Inside includes: "Presidential Election" "A Proclamation" relating to the War of 1812, signed in

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1846   Page 3 has: "Illinois. The Mormon War ended" which is an interesting account taking close to a full column. It notes in part: "...Articles of

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 17, 1995

• Million Man March
• African Americans
• Louis Farrakhan
• National Mall - Wash. D.C.

The nice headline reports on the Million Man March on Washington with: "Black Men, in

SAN DIEGO DAILY UNION, California, Oct. 17, 1871

• Chicago fire disaster
• Old wild West original
• Interesting advertisements

Not only a very early San Diego newspaper (pop. was just 2300), but the front

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct.17, 1990

• Death report of Jazz drummer Art Blakey

Page A20 has a quarter page article: "Art Blakey; Drummer, Mentor Led the Jazz Messengers", which includes a small photo. A

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 17, 1905

• London, Kentucky
• Laurel County lynching
• Negro Virgil Bowers

The front page has a one column heading: "KENTUCKY MOB HANGED NEGRO" with subhead. (see)

EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 17, 1913

• Johannisthal air disaster - airship
• One of the 1st multiple-fatality air disasters

The front page has a nice banner headline: "TWENTY-SIX PLUNGE TO DEATH IN

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1873

• Women's suffrage
• Woman's Congress
• Mary Livermore & more

The top of page 5 has a one column heading: "THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS" Text takes up almost a full column.

THE SAN DIEGO UNION, California, Oct. 17, 1879  The front page has: "A Formidable Apache War - Large Bodies of Well Armed Warriors in Morton" "This is followed by: "Terrible Apache Depredations in

THE SUN, New York, October 18, 1907  This issue has fine coverage on the financial stock market crisis of 1907. The front page has: "AN ELIMINATION OF HEINZES - F. AUGUSTUS OUT OF BANK PRESIDENCY,

THE WORLD, New York, Oct. 17, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "From Virginia" "Another Great Battle Near at Hand!" "Lee's Army at Manassas" "Gen. Meade's Forces in

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, October 17, 1940

• 1st lottery for U.S. WWII draftees
• World War II draft begins (1st report)

The top of the front page has a four column heading: "MILLIONS REGISTER IN

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1939

• Battle of the River Forth - Scotland
• Rosyth Naval Base - Firth of Forth
• Supermarine Spitfires vs. Junkers Ju 88

The top of the front page has a five column headline:

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1938

• Prime minister Winston Churchill
• Radio broadcast to America and London
• "The Defense of Freedom and Peace"

The top of page 5 has a six column headline: "Text of

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, October 17, 1929

• Stock market crash of 1929 beginning ?
• Pre initial great collapse

The front page has a one column heading: "Stock Selling Wave Washes 2 Billion In Quoted

THE PITTSBURGH RECORDER, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1822  The volume 1 number 49 issue of a quite uncommon and very early periodical from Western Penna. 
Articles within are: "Russia, as a Field for

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 17, 1931

• Inventor Thomas Alva Edison
• Falls into a coma - would die next day
• Al 'Scarface' Capone's tax evasion trial
• Would be found guilty on this day

The front page has a

DAILY NEWS, New York, October 17, 1959  The front page has the banner headline of "GEN. MARSHALL, WAR CHIEF, DIES" with coverage beginning on page two and continuing on page fourteen. "General of

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, a lot of six issues of Sept., Oct. and Nov., 1868, each containing on inside or back pages a report of a baseball game with box scores. All issues 8 pages, very nice condition.

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, October 17, 1933

• Albert Einstein arrives in America (1st report)
• Escapes Adolf Hitler & Third Reich

The front page has one column headings: "PROF. EINSTEIN DODGES