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LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 3, 1985 (an original vintage newspaper leaf from the Calendar section)  This offering consists of four complete pages (two double-sided sheets on one single leaf) featuring a

THE DETROIT NEWS, Nov. 3, 1930

• Haile Selassie I coronation
• Emperor of Ethiopian Empire

The bottom of the front page has a two column heading: "African King Is Crowned Amid Barbaric Splendor" (see

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., November 3, 1956

• "Wizard of OZ" movie classic
• Debuts on television - TV in color
• Judy Garland - Dorothy Gale
• Ruby slippers turn red for 1st time

Page 21 has a historic

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 3, 1945

• The 1945 Cairo Pogrom
• The Balfour Day riots
• Anti-Jewish - Jews by Arabs
• Anti-Zionist demonstration

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "EGYPT ARABS RIOT

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, November 3, 1931

• Ralph Capone receives 3 year prison term
• Chicago gangland gangster - mobster
• Brother of Al "Scarface" Capone

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Nov. 3, 1975

• Black Sabbath - English heavy metal rock band
• "Sabotage" Madison Square Garden advertisement
• Ozzy Osbourne - Tony Iommi w/

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Nov. 3, 1987

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - American rock band
• Performance at the Ritz nightclub advertisement
• Frontman Anthony Kiedis and

THE PEOPLE, New York, Nov. 3, 1877  A quite rare title as we can find nothing concerning it. It is not in Gregory's "Union List of American Newspapers" and it is too late for the American

SPORTS SECTION only of the Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 1992

• Magic Johnson announces retirement
• Los Angeles Lakers - NBA basketball
• Early example of the AIDS epidemic

The front page of this section has

LOS ANGLES TIMES, Nov. 3, 1992

• Hollywood producer Hal Roach death
• "Laurel and Hardy" "Our Gang" creator
• Short film comedy television TV series

The bottom of the front page has a two column heading:

SALEM REGISTER, Massachusetts, Nov. 3, 1803

• Historic Louisiana Purchase
• Expansion of the United States

Beginning on the front page is the complete text of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty with the two

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Nov. 3, 1966

• LSD - lysergic acid diethylamide
• Psychedelic drug - acid or lucy
• Forum on the benefits & bad affects
• Dr. Timothy Leary -

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 1849  A page 3 article begins: "Vessels For California" which gives the details of the large number of ships leaving from the East and bound for

THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, Nov. 3, 1679

• Popish Plot (to kill King Charles II) pardon ?

This issue has two items concerning the curious Popish Plot, the fabricated scheme accusing Catholics of

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 3, 1984

• American killer Margie Velma Barfield
• 1st Woman executed after resumption of capital punishment
• First Woman execution by lethal injection
• Central Prison - Raleigh,

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Nov. 22, 1981

• Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire disaster
• The Weather Underground

The front cover has: "THE SEEDS OF TERROR - How Children Of Privilege Became The Weather

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 3, 1960

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• John F. Kennedy - JFK
• 1960 Presidential campaign

The top of page 5 has a one column heading: "Negro Unit Charges King Aids Kennedy" (see images)

THE DETROIT NEWS, Nov. 3, 1960

• Explorer 8 launch and orbit
• NASA Research satellite

The front page has a banner headline: "U. S. Orbits 'Space Lab'" with subheads and small photo. (see images)

CHRONICLE & NEWS, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Nov. 3, 1880

• General James A. Garfield
• Presidential election win (1st report)

The front page haw a treat stack of first column headlines taking over

THE STAR, Island of Guernsey (in the English Channel), Nov. 3, 1941  A very curious issue, as Guernsey, an English-speaking island, was occupied by the Germans during WWII so all the news was

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 3, 1933

• Caribou Bill death
• Yukon gold rush
• Dog sled fame

The top of page 19 has a one column heading: "W. F. COOPER DEAD; FAMOUS IN YUKON" with subheads. (see) First

CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, November 3, 1946

• 2nd ever NBA basketball game
• Chicago Stags 1st game
• Historic report

Page 4of section 2 has a somewhat discrete report with a one column heading: "Stags Win 1st

MORNING OREGONIAN, Portland, Nov. 3, 1880

• Rare publication
• Wild old West era

An early issue from Portland, filled with various local and regional news reports of the day along with a wide range of

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 3, 2013

• Pre-premier ads and reviews
• Frozen
• Hunger Games: Catching Fire & Black Nativity
• Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Calendar Section has much to reveal about the upcoming

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Nov. 3, 1906

• Robert Edwin Peary Sr.
• North Pole exploration

The top of the front page has a two column heading: "COMMANDER PEARY NEAR THE POLE" with subhead. (see)

NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD, New York, Nov. 3, 1842

• Rare abolitionism publication
• American Anti-Slavery Society
• Capture & trial of George Latimer

As the title would suggest, an anti-slavery

THE WORLD, New York, Nov. 3, 1863  Among the page 3 column heads on the Civil War are: "News From Tennessee" "General Grant's Communications Again Threatened" "15,000 Rebels Threatening to Cross the

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 3, 1925

• George "Dutch" Anderson killed
• Prohibition era criminal
• Gerald Chapman comrade

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "'DUTCH' ANDERSON SLAIN BY

THE NEW YORK HERALD, Nov. 3, 1873

• John C. Heenan death funeral
• Bare Knuckle boxing - boxer

Page 8 has an article headed: "The Heenan Obsequies" "Funeral Ceremonies of America's Favorite Boxer..."

PUBLIC LEDGER, Philadelphia, November 3, 1887

• Jenny Lind death
• Swedish Nightingale
• Opera singer

Page 2 has a small and very inconspicuous report under: "Jenny Lind Dead" which text that begins: "That

THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Nov. 3, 1885

• George B. McClellan burial
• Civil War Major-General

The top of the front page has one column heading: "LAID TO REST" with subheads. (see)
Eight pages, some margin

SALEM GAZETTE, Massachusetts, November 3, 1848  A pg. 3 notice headed "Gen. Tom Thumb" gives details about the appearance of the " Man in Miniature" at the Boston Museum. Other news of the day

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Nov. 3, 1882  Page 2 has a somewhat brief article headed: "Dick Liddell [Liddil] Released on Bond" noting in part: "...the case of Dick Liddel, on trial for conspiracy in

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, England, Nov. 3, 1888  Among the many prints in this issue is a full page with seven scenes of: "The Denison Gold-Mines, Near Algoma, Lake Huron, Upper Canada." with

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 3, 1944

• Thomas Midgley Jr. death
• Ethyl gasoline inventor

Page 21 has one column headlines: "THOS. MIDGLEY DIES; NOTED CHEMIST, 55" "Inventor of Ethyl Gasoline Is Accident

EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, Nov. 3, 1779  Most of the front page is taken up with: "Further Thoughts on the Present Posture of Affairs, October, 1779" which has as its theme: "The two great

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 3, 1943

• Rocket warfare during World War II
• Secret Nazi weapon on Britain

This 42 page newspaper has two column headlines on page 2: "War and Air Power", "German

MEMPHIS EVENING APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, November 3, 1930

• Tom Mix - Cowboy actor
• Western movies fame

This 20 page newspaper has a one column photo of Tom Mix with heading: "Cowboy Ill".

Other news

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, November 3, 1864

• CSS Albemarle sinking
• Confederate ironclad ram

The front page has one column Civil War heads including: "VERY LATEST NEWS" "Destruction of the Albemarle"

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, November 3, 1938 This 26 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 17:

• Foxx Is Called Most Valuable
• Jimmy Gets Honors for Third Time

Other news of the

PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated November 3, 1942.

Headlines on the frontpage read "Bunk... Because 30 Million Americans Will Vote Today" "Allies Capture Kokoda, Key Jap Base on New Guinea" "Soviets

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1906  There is a front page illustration, "The Last Gasp" by W. A . Rogers. There are photos in this issue such as "Hughes's Campaign Against Hearst for the

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1900  Tientsin; The Taking of Peking; doublepage centerfold "The Drought In The Southwest" by Frederic Remington; The Evil Men In The Passion Play; The Warren

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1894  Full front page illus. of "The Proposed Design for the New Library Building of Columbia College." Inside are two 1/2 pg. illus. of "Potato Day at

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1888  Front page print: "The Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain". Fullpg. with 3 illus: 'Canvas-Back Duck Shooting on Chesapeake Bay'. Fullpg: 'New Naval

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1883  Full ftpg. shows: "General William Tecumseh Sherman". Three-quarter page print: "Robbing a Wild Bee Hive". Full page with 3 prints: "Henry Irving in 'The

HARPER'S WEEKLY, Nov. 3, 1877 Full ftpg. Nast political cartoon: 'The Millennium--The Tiger & the Lamb Lie Together'. Displayable fullpg. illus. of: 'Hot Springs, Arkansas'. Another Nast cartoon.

HARPER'S  WEEKLY, Nov. 3, 1866 Very nice full ftpg. shows a Black man & his grandchild: 'Uncle Tom & His Grandchild'. Nice fullpg. has 2 scenes of: 'View of the City & Harbor of Quebec', one after

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, November 3, 1860  Frontpg. has 1/2 pg. print: "The Last of the Prince--The Royal Squadron Steaming Out of Portland Harbor". Fullpg. shows: "Our Recent Vistitors, The

NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 3, 1923 Ftpg. 3 line, 1 col. head: "Naval Airman Flies 259 Miles an Hour For World's Record" & subheads: "Lieut. Brow Races Lieut.. Williams, Who Beat Him at St. Louis, at