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LOS ANGELES TIMES (calendar section only), Oct. 20, 1983

• Early actor Tom Cruise
• Just his 2nd lead film role
• American sports drama movie

Often revered as the undisputed "bible" of Hollywood, the Sunday

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 1849

• California Gold Rush
• 49ers - mining - miners

Page 3 has a terrific, nearly full column report headed: "The California Gold Region" which

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Oct. 20, 1945

• October Revolution of 1945 in Venezuela
• Overthrowing of Isaias Medina Angarita

The front page has a six column heading: "Venezuela President Ousted; 50 Killed"

CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, Oct. 20, 1929

• Illegal Aliens mass deportation
• Mexican Repatriation era in America
• Chicago gangland - gangsters era

The front page has a nice banner headline: "DEPORT 250 IN

NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 20, 1862

• Matthew Brady's Manhattan Gallery review
• Gruesome photographs of the Antietam battlefield

Page 5 contains one of the more moving articles on the horrors of war, brought

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Oct. 20, 1935

• Billy Mitchell Trophy Air Race
• Military airplanes - aviation competition
• Captain Karl Gimmler - U.S. Army Air Corps

The front page has a two column heading:

ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, Florida, Oct. 20, 1987

• Stock market crash
• Wall Street collapse

The front page reports the stock market crash of 1987 with: "Plunge of '87: Dow Falls 508" with subheads: "Market

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Oct. 20, 1987

• The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
• LGBTQ "The Great March" of 750,000 participants
• During

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 20, 1986

• Last Rajneesh commune in U.S. (Laguna Beach) closing
• Founded by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
• Movement responsible for 1st bio-terror attack in U.S.

Page 3 has: "Last

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 20, 1975

• Early Marshall Applewhite & Bonnie Nettles
• Heaven's Gate - new religious movement - cult
• Two witnesses of Revelation ? UFO

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 20, 1992

• Megadeth - thrash heavy metal band
• Frontman & guitarist Dave Mustaine
• Ritz Theatre performance advertisement
• Countdown to

NOUVELLES, Paris, France, Oct. 20, 1641

• Earliest newspaper in your collection?

The heading roughly translates to: "Ordinary News". This issue predates the earliest English language newspaper we have

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1934

• MacRobertson Trophy Air Race
• London to Melbourne airplane event
• Melbourne Centenary celebrations
• Jim and Amy Mollison photo

The top of the front page has a one

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 20, 1939

• Original "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" review
• James Stewart & Jean Arthur - Frank Capra
• Political comedy-drama film - movie

Page 27 has the first movie review by the

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, New York, Oct. 20, 1894  The front page is taken up with text and prints of: "The United States Infantry Magazine Rifle". Pages within have many articles and

EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 20, 1914

• HMS E3 British Royal Navy submarine
• Imperial German Navy U-27 U-boat
• 1st time a submarine was sunk by another

The front page has a banner headline in red

STAR OF FLORIDA, Tallahassee, Middle Florida, Oct. 20, 1841

• Rare antebellum publication

We have had a few titles from Florida before the Civil War, but this is more rare than the others. Various

NEW BEDFORD MERCURY, Massachusetts, Oct. 20, 1809  This is just the second issue of this title we have offered in our 50+ years. A quite uncommon newspaper.
Various news of the day including items

GRAND ARMY SCOUT AND SOLDIERS MAIL, Philadelphia, Oct. 20, 1883  Although this is a volume 2 issue, this is just the second issue we have discovered in our 50+ years.
This newspaper is not listed in

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, October 20, 1888  The frontpage of the issue features "The Highest Chimney in the United States, Recently Errected at the Clark Thread Works" which was located at

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 20, 1995 (Front and Calendar sections only)

• Get Shorty - premier double-page ad and review
• Mallrats - premier ad and review
• Les Misérables - premier ad and review
• Now and Then -

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Oct. 20, 1884

• Rudger Clawson polygamy trial
• Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
• Mormons - Mormonism

Page 2 has: "The Clawson Polygamy Case" being a report from Salt Lake, Utah,  on

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 20, 1900

• Armenian Genocide - Holocaust - Massacres
• Sason - Ottoman Empire - Turkey

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "HORRIBLE OUTRAGES" with

THE SCRANTON TIMES, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1933.

• George Armwood Negro lynched
• Princess Anne, Maryland
• Last lynching in the state

Page 2 has a two column photo with heading: "Victim Of Maryland

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Oct. 20, 1888  Inside has full-length portraits of Timothy J. Keefe, Pitcher & Williams Ewing captioned: "The Winning Battery Of The New York Base-Ball Team." Each

SAN DIEGO DAILY UNION, California, Oct. 20, 1871

• Peshtigo fire disaster - Wisconsin
• Old wild West original
• Interesting advertisements

Very early from San Diego--a volume 2 issue--when the population

NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 20, 1858  Page 4 has nearly a full column report on: "The Prize Fight Today" between Morrissey and Heenan (The Benicia Boy). Column subheads include: "Morrissey and the Benecia

THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 1900

• Rare title
• Women's suffrage

Their motto in the masthead: "Equality Before The Law". This was the country's leading women's suffrage publication

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1930

• Aviator Charles Kingsford Smith
• England to Australia air race
• Record breaking airplane flight

Page 11 has a one column heading: "CUTS RECORD 5 DAYS IN AUSTRALIA

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1938

• Charles Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer ?
• Receives: "Service Cross of the German Eagle"
• Field Marshall Hermann Goering - Adolf Hitler

Near the bottom of the front

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Mass., October 20, 1960

• United States embargo against Cuba beginning

What has since become an extremely significant event in  United States foreign relations, the

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1932

• Arthur Friedheim death
• Concert pianist - piano
• Franz Liszt pupil

Page 29 has a one column heading: "ARTHUR FRIEDHEIM, PIANIST, DIES AT 72" with subheads and photo.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1933

• Pioneer Australian aviator Charles Ulm
• New airplane flight speed record set

The top of the back page has a one column photo of Australian aviator pioneer Charles

THE BOSTON POST, October 30, 1939

• Alice Brady death w/ photo
• Early American actress

The top of the front page has a two column heading: "DEATH TAKES ALICE BRADY" with subhead and nice photo. (see)

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1915  The front page has a three-column, three-line headline "Russia and Italy Declare War on Bulgaria and Allies Warn Greece; Bulgars Cut the Nish Railroad" with

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, England, Oct. 20, 1855  Inside has a full page article: "Operations In the Pacific--Visit of an English Ship to Japan" which includes  7 prints from Japan. Other prints

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 20, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Cavalry Engagement Near Manassas Junction" "Spirited Artillery Duel" "No Rebel Infantry Near Our Army" "Gen.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, October 20, 1877  The front cover continues a halfpage illustration "Fireless Locomotive For Street Railways" which has an accompanying article. Inside the issue is:

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1858

• John Heenan "Benicia Boy"
• Pre Civil War boxing w/ police raid
• Jews Hospital - Mount Sinai

The front page has an article headed: "Fight Between the 'Bencia Boy' and

CLEVELAND WEEKLY HERALD, Cleveland, Ohio, October 20, 1882

• Early pretzel described

Page 3 has small one column headings: "The Pretzel" "Some Account of the Origin of The Modern Delicacy"
Other news

SALEM GAZETTE, Massachusetts, October 20, 1837

• Vicksburg, Mississippi lynching

This issue contains news of the day with several interesting advertisements throughout. Page 2 has a small one column

EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, Oct. 20, 1777

• Rare Revolutionary War title

Page 2 has a report noting: "....from New  York but by which there were many private letters confirming the repulse at

NILES' REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 20, 1832  This issue contains a report entitled: "Peace With The Indians" which takes about 3 column inches, and talks about a treaty with the Winnebago Indians. A

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 20, 1924

• Red Grange "The Galloping Ghost"
• University of Illinois famous performance
• Michigan Wolverines

This 36 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 21 that

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, October 20, 1888  The frontpage of the issue features "The Highest Chimney in the United States, Recently Erected at the Clark Thread Works" which was located at

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, October 20, 1928

• William Edward Hickman hanged
• Marion Parker kidnapping and murder

This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include

LESLIE'S WEEKLY, New York, October 20, 1904  The prominent feature of this issue is the front page color cover titled:  "Fox-hunting -- Society's Vigorous Autumn Recreation", by L. H. Ruyl.  The

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York City, October 20, 1928

• Guggenheim Heirs Die
• Boys Fall 13-Stories
• Babe Ruth promotes Governor Al Smith

This 36 page newspaper has a two line, one column headline on the

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, dated Oct. 20, 1802.

• Masons - Masonic
• Early 19th century original reading

A page 2 report from New-York states in part:

• ...yesterday morning, the most worshipful master,

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL from Madison, Wisconsin and dated October 20, 1868.

• Early Madison Wisconsin
• 1868 Wisconsin
• Original News

This 4 page newspaper is in good condition due to the use of cotton and