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  • The hanging of a murderer...
    Item #699921
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, March 29, 1879

    * The Curious Case of Knox Martin: Legend of the Nashville

     The front page has over half a column with a very detailed report headed: "THE GALLOWS" "Execution of Knox Martin for Murder at Nashville" "12,000 People  Assemble to See the Show" "The Culprit Makes... Read full description  
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  • United States recognizes USSR in 1933...
    Item #699916
    THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, November 18, 1933

    * United States recognizes the Soviet Union
    * Russia - USSR (1st report)
    * Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes relations


    The top of the front page has a four column headline: "United States Recognizes Russia but Leaves Debt Issue Unsettled; Bullitt Is Appointed Ambassador" with subheads and... Read full description  
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  • Alma, New Mexico massacre.... Apaches...
    Item #699915
    KANSAS CITY DAILY JOURNA, May 5, 1880

    * Alma, Catron County, New Mexico massacre
    * Chiricahua Apaches - Indians - Victorio


    This uncommon Midwestern title has news of the day with many advertisements. The front page has an article headed: "Indian Depredations" "Ranchmen Killed and a Large Flock of Sheep Driven Off" See image for... Read full description  
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  • House of David cult commune... Benjamin Purnell...
    Item #699914
    THE DETROIT NEWS, Dec. 22, 1926

    * The Israelite House of David religious commune
    * King Benjamin Purnell sex w/ minors scandal trial
    * Benton Harbor, Michigan cult


    The front page has a banner heading: "'King Ben,' Lying on Stretcher, Hears Story of Attack" with subheads. (see) I suspect this to be an extremely rare... Read full description  
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  • Lou Gehrig's high school baseball team...
    Item #699912
    CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, June 12, 1920

    * High school all-star game - Wrigley Field
    * Commerce High School, Brooklyn, New York
    * 17-year old Lou Gehrig as a upcoming star


    The top of page 16 has a one column heading: "CHICAGO-N.Y. PREP DIAMOND SERIES IS ON" (see images) This game would take place a few weeks later at Wrigley Field.... Read full description  
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  • Presumed dead, she was not...   On the Cheyenne Massacre...
    Item #699902
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Feb. 13, 1879  

    * The "Risen From the Dead" Phenomenon
    * The Cheyennes "Seven Surviving Braves"  


    Page 3 has a curious article: "Risen From The Dead" "Robed for the Grave and Coffin When Life Returns" being a case of a woman presumed dead,... Read full description  
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  • Extolling the virtues of Santa Barbara...   Mormon leader defends polygamy...
    Item #699901
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Feb. 11, 1879  

    * Future Mormon president John Taylor
    * Defender of Polygamy - multiple wives


    Page 2 has most of a column taken up with: "SANTA BARBARA" "A Place Bountifully Endowed by Generous Nature" "A Lovely City by a Sunny Sea, With a Rich... Read full description  
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  • Mormons & polygamy: defying the Supreme Court ruling...
    Item #699900
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Feb. 9, 1879  Page 7 has an article: "The Mormon Question" "Petition of the Anti-Polygamy Society to Congress" datelined at Salt Lake, Utah.  It notes in part: "...is a matter of common notoriety that Mormons are contracting unlawful marriages the same as ever;... Read full description  
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  • On Sitting Bull...   How to treat the Indians...
    Item #699898
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Jan. 31, 1879  

    * Chief Sitting Bull
    * Hunkpapa Lakota
    * Indians - Native Americans


    Page 4 has two interesting editorials, one headed: "Sitting Bull" which relates to his return to American soil from Canada, and the other: "How to Treat the Indians" which reflects upon a... Read full description  
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  • Mormon thugs in Idaho...   Cheyenne Massacre... Edison's invention...   Sitting Bull...
    Item #699897
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Jan. 25, 1879  Page 2 has several varied reports including: "Mormon Thugs In Idaho" "Driving A Gentle From His Home--Dead Men Tell No Tales" plus: "Sitting Bull" "His Reported Return to the American Side of the Border - Two of His... Read full description  
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  • On the invention of the electric light...
    Item #699893
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Jan. 20, 1879

    * Inventors Thomas Edison & Henry Draper
    * Electric light experiments & development


     Page 3 has over a full column taken up with much detail on a controversy on the invention of the electric light, this one concerning Professor Draper and his involvement, with much mention of... Read full description  
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  • Noted desperado, Dutch Charley, is hanged...
    Item #699891
    THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, St. Louis, Jan. 18, 1879  Page 2 includes: "A Bloody Tragedy" "Man Fatally Shot by the Paramour of His Wife" as well as: "The Commodore And His Kin" "Skeletons in the Closets of the Vanderbilt Family" which takes over half a column.
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  • By A. B. Frost: "Selecting The Turkey"...
    Item #699839
    HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, Dec. 1, 1900  The front page has the Uncle Sam cartoon, "LET US GIVE THANKS", by W. A. Rogers - a political cartoonist who was hired by Harper's Weekly in 1887 to replace Thomas Nast after he retired. The double-page centerfold is a very displayable illustration also by A. B. Frost: "Selecting... Read full description  
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  • Russian writer Leo Tolstoy death nears...
    Item #699838
    THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Nov. 15, 1910

     * Leo Tolstoy death close
    * Russian writer - novelist
    * "War and Peace" book fame


    The front page has a two column headline: "TOLSTOI AND HIS WIFE NEAR DEATH" with subhead (see images). Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp"... Read full description  
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  • Earliest newspaper in your collection?
    Item #699837
    NOUVELLES, Paris, France, December 28, 1641 

    * Earliest newspaper in your collection?

    The heading roughly translates to: "Ordinary News"." This issue predates the earliest English language newspaper we have in our inventory. It was the "sister" publication of the "Gazette", the very first regular... Read full description  
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  • An attempted early demonstration of a parachute ends comically...   News from America...
    Item #699820
    THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, July 14, 1785  The back page has a report concerning the early use of a parachute, bits noting: "...persons were assembled...late Blanchard's Aerobatic Academy near Vauxhall, to be spectators of an experiment made by a Italian with a parachute, who was to... Read full description  
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  • 1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin death...
    Item #699769
    THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, March 9, 1917

    * Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin death w/ photo
    * Inventor of the German Zeppelin rigid airships
    * Luftschiffbau Zeppelin manufacturing Co. founder


    The front page has a one column heading: "COUNT ZEPPELIN DIES IN BERLIN" with subhead and photo of Count Zeppelin. (see images)
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  • The Gage Station train robbery... New Mexico...
    Item #699766
    THE DAILY COMMONWEALTH, Topeka, Kansas, November 25, 1883

    * Gage Station train robbery
    * Silver City, New Mexico
    * Harvey Whitehall


    The front page has an article headed: "Train Robbery on the Southern Pacific" (see images) First report coverage on the Gage Station train robbery near Silver City, New Mexico.
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  • Dwight Eisenhower Recieves Charter At Columbia University...
    Item #699762
    NEW YORK TIMES, October 13, 1948

    * President Dwight D. Eisenhower
    * Becomes Columbia University President


    The top of the front page has a one column heading: "EISENHOWER TAKES OFFICE AT COLUMBIA; STRESSES FREEDOM" with subheads that include: "19,000 View Ceremonies" plus a two column photo of IKE... Read full description  
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  • 1st Women's Air Derby death... Marvel Crosson...
    Item #699761
    THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Nebraska, August 21, 1929

    * 1st Women's Air Derby
    * "Powder Puff Derby"
    * Marvel Crosson's crash & death


    The front page has a seven column headline: "CHARGE GIRL FLYER VICTIM OF MANIAC" with subheads. (see images)
    Complete with 24 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins,... Read full description  
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  • Roy Halladay's postseason no-hitter...
    Item #699750
    THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, October 7, 2010

    * Roy Halladay's no-hitter
    * Postseason debut
    * Best title to be had


    The front page has a headline: "Unhittable" with subhead: "Halladay silences Reds to make history in his playoff debut" and photo. (see)
    The front page of the sport's section has a headline: "Docs of... Read full description  
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  • Private citizen George Washington hopes to solve the Indian troubles...
    Item #699749
    THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Feb. 19, 1785  The back page has an: "Extract of a Letter from New York" which reports on the troubles with the Indians along the Ohio River. One big men lions: "...General Washington, who has now reduced himself to the rank of a private citizen, has offered to go... Read full description  
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  • A wretched life in The Bahamas...   On Florida being ceded to Spain...
    Item #699747
    THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Feb. 15, 1785  Page 2 has news: "...from St. Augustine, in East Florida." noting: "They give a melancholy account of the situation of the few setters who remained on the province being ceded to Spain. The gloomy disposition of the Spaniards & their enthusiastic... Read full description  
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  • Quality of life in New Brunswick...
    Item #699746
    THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Feb. 12, 1785  The back page has a: "Letter from St. John's River, New Brunswick" on the quality of life there, noting in part: "The establishing of a government on this side of the Bay of Fundy is a lost pleasing circumstance...The rapid increase of people of property & in the cultivation... Read full description  
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  • Trouble with the Indians in Kentucky...
    Item #699741
    THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Jan. 20, 1785  

    * Indians - Native Americans
    * Murder & scalping in Kentucky


    Page 2 has a report, which although headed: "Jamaica" actually has reports from Danville, Kentucky, noting in part: "...the Indians, after having collected our prisoners...all of a sudden....came to a resolution... Read full description  
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  • On one of the major pioneers in manned balloon flights...
    Item #699738
    THE LONDON CHRONICLE, England, Jan. 6, 1785  

    * Early ballooning - aviation pioneer
    * Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier


    Page 5 has a paragraph on one of the pioneers of manned flight, noting: "The famous M. Pilastre de Rozier, after having in vain waited...for a favourable wind to waft him & his... Read full description  
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  • German U-Boats on American Coast campaign (1918)...
    Item #699732
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, June 3, 1918

    * German U-Boats - submarines
    * North American coast campaign


    The front page has a nice banner headline: "DIVERS AT WORK OFF U. S. COAST; Passenger Liner Radios Submarine Attack" with subhead. (see images) Nice for display. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the... Read full description  
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  • 1918 Jim Thorpe & Chief Meyers baseball photo...
    Item #699730
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, May 22, 1918

    * American athlete Jim Thorpe
    * Chief Myers and Zach Wheat
    * Native Americans in baseball


    Page 11 has a two column pictorial with heading: "Redskins are Folding Their Tents And Stealing Away From The Majors" with text. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being... Read full description  
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  • Great Train Wreck of 1918... Nashville...
    Item #699729
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, July 9, 1918

    * Great Train Wreck of 1918
    * Nashville, Tennessee disaster
    * Worst rail accident in U.S. history


    The front page has a nice banner headline: "TWENTY-FIVE KILLED" with subhead. (see images) Nice for display. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era.... Read full description  
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  • The trial in the John Brown Harper's Ferry insurrection...
    Item #699719
    NEW YORK HERALD, Nov. 9, 1859  

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


    Much of the front page is taken up with election results. Page 4 has over half a column headed: "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak" "Proceedings of the Court--The Case of... Read full description  
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  • John Brown and the Harper's Ferry uprising...
    Item #699718
    NEW YORK HERALD, Nov. 8, 1859  

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


    The last column of the front page has: "The Harper's Ferry Affair" "The Excitement & Crisis in the South" with many subheads. Also: "The Law of Virginia In Regard to Pardons"... Read full description  
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  • The John Brown Harper's Ferry insurrection...
    Item #699716
    NEW YORK HERALD, Nov. 2, 1859  

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


    The front page has column heads including: "The Harper's Ferry Affair" "Argument for Arrest of Judgment in Old Brown's Case" "The Trial of Coppie [Coppic] Commenced"... Read full description  
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  • John Brown & the Harper's Ferry insurrection...
    Item #699715
    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 of John Brown, Charged with Conspiracy, Treason and Murder" "Conclusion of the... Read full description  
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  • Second Battle of the Piave River (1918)...
    Item #699712
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, June 21, 1918

    * Second Battle of the Piave River - Italy
    * Kingdom of Italy vs. Austria-Hungary
    * World War I - WWI Italian Front


    The front page has a six column headline: "PIAVE FIGHTING IS VIOLENT" with subhead. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood... Read full description  
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  • Simon Frith's early review of Elvis Costello... Mel Brooks going crazy?
    Item #699711
    THE VILLAGE VOICE, New York, December 26, 1977  The front page has: "Elvis Costello: Pleased to Aim", which shows the introduction to a review by the world renowned music critic Simon Frith, and includes a small image of Costello. The text of the review is found on page 55 and includes an additional... Read full description  
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  • Yom Kippur War in 1973...
    Item #699703
    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 - Jewish - Judaica


    The front page has a threecolumn headline: "Israeli Unit Raids Sites In Egypt" and more. (see images)
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  • Much on the John Brown insurrection...   The Underground Railroad...   Seeking Frederick Douglass...
    Item #699702
    NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 28, 1859  The top of the front page has some nice column heads on the Harper's Ferry insurrection: "The Harper's Ferry Outbreak" "The Trial of John Brown, Charged with Insurrection, Treason and Murder" "The Testimony of the Witnesses Against the Prisoner" "Confession... Read full description  

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  • Yom Kippur War begins in 1973...
    Item #699698
    THE NEW AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 8, 1973

    * Yom Kippur War beginning
    * Valley  (Vale) of Tears battle
    * Israel vs. Egypt - Syria & more
    * Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab States 
    * Sinai Peninsula - Golan Heights
    * Jews - Jewish - Judaica


    The front page has a five column headline: "Egyptians Trapped, In Sinai, Israel... Read full description  
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  • Yom Kippur War begins in 1973...
    Item #699697
    THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 7, 1973

    * Yom Kippur War begins (day one)
    * Israel vs. Egypt - Syria & more
    * Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab States 
    * Sinai Peninsula - Golan Heights
    * Jews - Jewish - Judaica


    The front page has a nice banner headline: "Egyptians Storm Suez Canal; Israelis Battle Syrian Forces"... Read full description  
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  • End of U.S. prohibition nears in 1932...
    Item #699690
    THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, August 12, 1932

    * The United States prohibition to end ?
    * President Herbert Hoover admits failure
    * President nomination address


    The top of the front page has a four column headline: "HOOVER URGES REFORM OF NATION'S DRY LAWS IN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH" with subheads. (see) Text of Hoover's acceptance... Read full description  
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  • Second Ostend Raid... 1918 Royal Navy...
    Item #699688
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, May 10, 1918

    * Second Ostend Raid - Belgium
    * Royal Navy blockade attempt
    * North Sea Operations - WWI


    The front page has a banner headline: "BRITISH CLOSE PORT OF OSTEND" with subhead. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find... Read full description  
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  • Rose Pastor Stokes sentenced for espionage...
    Item #699687
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, June 1, 1918

    * Rose Pastor Stokes prison sentence
    * Espionage Act of 1917 violation - WWI
    * American socialist activist - writer
    * Communist Party of America co-founder


    The front page has a six column headline: "SENTENCE MRS. STOKES" with subhead. (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good... Read full description  
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  • First of this title we have offered?
    Item #699658
    THE SUNBEAM, London, April 21, 1838  Printed in the masthead is: "A Weekly Journal Devoted To Polite Literature And Music". This is a volume 1 issue and would appear to be the first of this title we have offered.
    Eight pages with the back page taken up with a piece of music, untrimmed margins, 10 by 12 3/4 inches, some staining... Read full description  
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  • Newspaper edited by the famed Jonathan Swift...
    Item #699656
    THE EXAMINER, London, Oct. 9, 1713 

    * Rare 18th century publication

    This editorial-format newspaper was edited by the famed Jonathan Swift at this time (of Gulliver's Travels fame), It promoted a Tory perspective on British politics, at a time when Queen Anne had replaced Whig ministers with Tories.
    Complete as a single sheet... Read full description  
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  • One of London's more successful newspapers...
    Item #699652
    THE NEWS, London, Jan. 15, 1832  This was one of the more successful & popular newspapers of the era with news from various parts of Europe. The masthead features an engraving of a newsboy "trumpeting" the news.
    Eight pages, 12 1/4 by 15 1/4 inches, good condition.
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  • "American News"...
    Item #699650
    THE MIDDLESEX JOURNAL & EVENING POST, London, May 17, 1781  

    * Revolutionary War Era
    * From The Enemy


    Page 2 begins with a report headed: "American News" mostly taken up with a Proclamation signed in type by: Anthony Johnson, commander-in-chief of British forces in the Caribbean, concerning the taking of Dutch ships.
    Irregular at the left... Read full description  
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  • Reports relating to the French & Indian War...
    Item #699646
    THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, Scotland, Jan. 26, 1758  

    * British officer Robert Monckton
    * French and Indian War promotion


    Page 2 has a brief item relating to the ongoing French & Indian War, noting: "Robert Monckton, Esq., is likewise appointed Lieutenant Colonel commandant of the Royal American regiment in the room of... Read full description  
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  • 1918 flying ace David Endicott Putnam killed...
    Item #699643
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, June 15, 1918

    * David Endicott Putnam - kills
    * American flying ace "Ace of Aces"
    * United States Air Service pilot
    * World War I - WWI


    The front page has a one column heading: "American Airman Downs Five Hun Airplanes In One Day" (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition... Read full description  
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  • 1918 Split Rock, New York expolsion disaster...
    Item #699642
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, July 3, 1918

    * Split Rock quarry disaster
    * Munitions factory explosion
    * Onondaga County, New York


    The front page has a one column heading: "SIXTY-FIVE KILLED IN TERRIFIC BLAST" (see images) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find... Read full description  
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  • 1916 Revolution on Island of Crete - Greece...
    Item #699634
    EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Sept. 25, 1916

    * National Schism- Greece
    * Island of Crete revolution


    The front page has a nice banner headline: "REVOLUTIONISTS HOLD CRETE" with subhead. (see images) Nice for display. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that... Read full description  
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