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THE RALEIGH TIMES, Oct. 31, 1966

• Ku Klux Klan - KKK in N.C.
• James Robertson "Bob" Jones

The front page has a three column heading: "Dragon Jones Says 'Idiots' Boycott Store" with lead-in: "'Don't

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Oct. 31, 1932

• London, England hunger & unemployment marches & riots
• National Unemployed Workers' Movement (NUWM)

The front page has a nice banner headline: "LONDON MOB RIOTS AT

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 31, 1968

• Chuck Norris vs. Louis Delgado karate bout
• American martial artist and Hollywood actor
• Lightweight championship of the World ad
• CRE

THE EVENING BULLETIN, Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 31, 1863  This is a great, smaller-size Civil War newspaper with many war-related reports throughout (see photos). 
Perhaps the most curious is a

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York, Oct. 31, 1956

• Jules Feiffer - American satirist - cartoonist
• 2nd ever appearance headed "Sick, Sick, Sick"

Page 6 has the second ever

THE DETROIT NEWS, Oct. 31, 1950

• Jayuya Uprising - Puerto Rican Nationalist Revolt
• Pedro Albizu Campos - Utuado, Puerto Rico

The front page has a one column heading: "Attack Rebels in Puerto Rico"

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 31, 1965

• John Burros suicide death
• Grand Dragon of the KKK
• Ku Klux Klan of New York
• American Nazi Party leader
• Jewish ancestry made public

Near the bottom of the front page is a

NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1935

• Post Dutch Schultz assassination
• New York City gangsters hunted
• Johnny Torrio & Lucky Luciano

The top of the front page has one column headings: "POLICE TO REVIVE

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Oct. 31, 1940

• "The Great Dictator" opening day advertisement
• Charlie Chaplin's first true sound film
• Political satire comedy-drama movie
• Adolf Hitler - Benito Mussolini - fascism

DETROIT FREE PRESS, Oct. 31, 1965

• Pro-Vietnam War march in NYC
• Support of American troops

During the Vietnam War, much had been reported on the protests against U.S. action there. Here is a report of

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Oct. 31, 1989

• Guns N' Roses - hard rock band
• New wave of rock music is born
• Compared with the Rolling Stones (old school)
• Axl Rose & Slash

THE VILLAGE VOICE, New York, Oct. 31, 1977

• Journalist Arthur Bell
• LGBT - gay rights activist

Page 16 has an article by Arthur Bell,  a journalist and LGBT activist who first wrote for the Village

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, Oct. 31, 1928

• Elfrieda Knaak burned - the furnace girl

• Lake Bluff, Illinois - unsolved mystery
• Suicide or murder ? - infatuation - crush

Page 2 has a two column

THE WORLD, New York, Oct. 31, 1861

• Battle of Ball's Bluff - Virginia
• Confederate - rebel victory

Among the front page column heads: "THE SOUTHERN REBELLION" "The Great Naval Expedition" "50 Vessels

NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 31, 1871

• National Association of Professional Baseball Players
• End of inaugural season w/ Philadelphia Athletics (winner)

Page 5 has a small yet historically significant report

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oct. 31, 2002

• Jam Master Jay murder - assassination
• Run-DMC hip hop group musician DJ
• Infancy of mainstream rap music fame

The top of page 17 has a heading: "Member of Pioneer Rap

DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Oct. 31, 1862

• From the capital of the Confederacy
• Major General Joseph Hooker letter
• Official account pf the Battle of Glendale

Not just a newspaper from the

THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1861  This was an anti-war newspaper that insisted that slavery should not be abolished, so much of its content has an anti-North bias.
Among the various articles

THE PROVIDENCE GAZETTE & COUNTRY JOURNAL, Rhode Island, Oct. 31, 1778

• British last attempt - peace with America

The entire front page and a portion of page 2 are taken up with an historic document

MIRROR NEWS, EXTRA, Los Angeles, October 31, 1956

• Suez Canal Crisis
• Second Arab-Israeli War

The front page has a nice banner headline: "CAIRO BOMBED; British, French Launch Air, Naval Attack on Suez"

NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 31, 1859

• John Brown's insurrection - invasion - raid
• Harpers Ferry WV - West Virginia trial

The top of the front page has column heads: "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak" "The Trial

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1937

• Jewish Holocaust prediction ?
• Extinction of Jews predicted
• Joachim Prinz - Jewish rabbi

The top of page 18 has a one column heading: "JEWS HELD DOOMED UNDER NAZI

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Missouri, Oct. 31, 1878  This uncommon Midwestern title has news of the day with many interesting advertisements. Page 2 has an article headed: "When Edison Was A Boy" with

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Oct. 31, 1884

• Polygamist - polygamy trial
• Mormons - Mormonism

Page 4 has a report: "A Polygamist on Trial" with a dateline from Salt Lake. This is about the case of John

THE DOWNFALL OF BABYLON, New York, Oct. 31, 1835

• Anti-Catholic

A quite rare & unusual weekly (later semi-monthly) newspaper with strong anti-Catholic leanings published by: "Samuel B. Smith, Late a

BALLOU'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Oct. 31, 1857  The front page has an article and related print on: "Emigrants At Constitution Wharf, Boston".
Other prints include: "Perils of the Pacific Whale Trade"

THE SPECTATOR, New York, Oct. 31, 1798

• Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic

An unusual issue being single sheet rather than the typical 4 pages due to the on-going Yellow Fever Epidemic which ravaged

POLITICAL RECORD, San Francisco, California, Oct. 31, 1894

• Adolph Sutro - mayor of San Francisco
• Virginia City, Nevada Comstock Lode fame

True to its title, this issue is filled with political

PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE, Austin, Nevada, Oct. 31, 1891

• Very rare old West publication

A rare title from this small town at the very center of Nevada, at an elevation of 6575 feet. It was a booming silver

THE WORLD, New York, Oct. 31, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "A Brilliant Success at Lookout Mountain" "Gallant Behavior of Hooker's Troops" "The Rappahannock still Held

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Oct. 31, 1863  The front page features two prints of: "Coon's Breech-Loading Cannon" which has an accompanying article. Nice to have a war-related illustration &

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., October 31, 1922

• Benito Mussolini initial rise to power
• March on Rome
• Government take over

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "'TO DEMOBILIZE FASCISTI

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1971

• Duane Allman killed in motorcycle accident
• Allman Brothers Band - Guitarist

Page 83 has a small and discrete one column heading: "Duane Allman Dies at 24 In a

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1936

• Aviator Jim Mollison
• Airplane - aviation
• Record transatlantic flight

The front page has a one column heading: "MOLLISON BREAKS ATLANTIC RECORD" with subheads.

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, October 31, 1963  This 52 page newspaper has a three column headline in the sport's section (page 44): "Koufax Completes Sweep Of Honors With MVP Win" with

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Oct. 31, 1863

• Battle of Wauhatchie, Tennessee
• Lookout Mountain captured

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Reports From Lee's Army" "Skirmishing in

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1875

• Actor Edwin Booth
• Othello & Richelieu

Page 11 has an advertisement for the Fifth Avenue Theatre title: "EDWIN BOOTH" in bold lettering for his performances in

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Missouri, October 31, 1880

• Mermaid - aquatic creature

This uncommon Midwestern title has news of the day with many interesting advertisements. Page 6 has an article headed:

THE WORLD, New York City, October 31, 1872

• Steamship Missouri disaster

The front page has one column headings that include: "AWFUL CATASTROPHE", "Another Steamer Burned at Sea", "Over Eighty Lives

NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, October 31, 1861  This issue is filled with advertisements and Civil War reports throughout from the day it was first reported which includes a large back page  map: "THE

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, October 31, 1930

• Babe Ruth adopts two daughters
• Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone & Julia Hodgson
• Frank Nitti arrested - Al 'Scarface' Capone

The front page has a three column

THE DETROIT NEWS, October 31, 1948

• Donora, Pennsylvania smog disaster

The front page has one column headings: "Death of 15 Laid to Smog" and  "At Least 50 Ill in Pittsburgh Area". 1st report

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1972

• Chicago, Illinois
• Commuter train crash

The front page has a four column photo with heading: "44 Killed and 320 Injured as Chicago Trains Crash"

with subhead:

THE BETHLEHEM TIMES, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1922

• Benito Mussolini comes to power
• Fascist party
• Rome, Italy

The front page has two column headlines on the front page that include: "MUSSOLINI,

NEW YORK HERALD, October 31, 1865

• Brooklyn Atlantics
• Philadelphia Athletics
• Famous post civil war Baseball game

On page 5 under "The National Game" is a report: "The Great Match Between the Atlantics

THE RUSSELL DAILY NEWS, Kansas, October 31, 1959

• Piedmont Airlines Flight 349
• Crozet VA Virginia
• Douglas DC-3

This 6 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "Search for Airliner

THE TIMES PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 31, 1942

• Berryville, Arkansas tornado disaster (1st report)
• Carroll County, Arkansas

This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front

LEOMINSTER ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, October 31, 1972

• 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash (1st report)

This 24 page newspaper has a five column headline on page 3: "Chicago rail Tragedy kills 44" with

Harper's Weekly set of 5 issues, dated weekly from October 31, 1857 through November 28, 1857, all featuring a serialized portion of "The Lazy Tour Of The Two Idle Apprentices", by Charles Dickens. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 31, 1941.

• Charles Lindbergh's Speech

• Madison Square Garden

This 46 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "LINDBERGH SEES TRICKERY ON WAR" "Lists