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Item #593886LIBERTY, New York, November 11, 1939 The cover of this issue shows a hunter and his dog which came upon a skunk.
Inside the issue is: "The Lid Off Los Angeles - Beginning an astounding story of corruption and vice in a great city -- and a stirring battle against them"; and more stories and advertisements. The back page features a color... Read full description -
Item #593871JUDGE magazine, New York, September 24, 1927 The cover of this issue is entitled "Plane Jane" and is an illustration of a lady pilot about to climb into a plane. The issue is comprised of a variety of articles, poems, illustrations, stories and advertisements.
This is complete in 34 pages measuring approximately 11.25 x 8.5 inches and is in nice... Read full description -
Item #593777SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, June 1, 1901 The front cover of this issue features five photos of "the Water Supply of New York City - Jerome Park Reservoir" which has an accompanying article within the issue. Inside is: "Double-Track Railway Viaduct Over the Des Moines River"; "The United States Experimental Model Basin";... Read full description -
Item #593765THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS SCREEN & RADIO WEEKLY, Albany, New York, February 2, 1936 The cover of this issue features a photo actress Bette Davis with a related article inside. Also within the issue are numerous Hollywood reports and photos.
Complete in 16 pages with some binding slits in the left spine, otherwise in nice condition. -
Item #593739THE FRANKLIN JOURNAL, Farmington, Maine, August, 6, 1912 The front page of this issue has a one column-wide article "Taft's Speech of Acceptance" with subheads "'Save the Constitution' The Keynote and Democrats Asked to Help" and "Spread of Socialist Doctrines Is Due to Muckraking... Read full description -
Item #593495THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, Omaha, Nebraska, November 17, 1904
* Hole-in-the-Wall Gang??
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid era
The front page has one column headings: "One Of Cody Bandits Caught" and "Posse from Thermopolis Captures Taller of the Two Wyoming Bandits". See photo for text. Is this regarding the Hole in the Wall... Read full description -
Item #593309LEOMINSTER ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, May 27, 1964
* Jawaharlal Nehru death (1st report with photo)
* Leader in India
This 18 page newspaper has a two column heading on the front page: "Prime Minister Nehru Dies of Stroke at 74" with photo of Nehru (see photos).
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day... Read full description -
Item #593158NATIONAL JEWISH LEDGER, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1949
* 1st Knesset
* Chaim Weizmann
The banner head announces: "First Jewish Parliament Convenes" with the balance of the front page primarily focused on Jewish issues. Complete in 12 pages, some wear at margins. -
Item #593146THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 25, 1931
* Rogers Hornsby
* Chicago Cubs
* Major league baseball
This 40 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 14: "HORNSBY TIES MARK WITH THREE HOMERS", "Successive Clouts, Equaling Modern Record, Help Cubs Beat Pirates, 10-6" and more with photo of Hornsby and box scores. 1st... Read full description -
Item #592982THE SCRANTON TIMES, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1932
* Reichstag - Germany parliament
* Adolph Hitler to win (eve)
This 22 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "CHANCELLOR VON PAPEN CLOSES DOOR TO HITLERITES" with subheads (see photos).
This paper contains other news of the day. It has light browning... Read full description -
Item #592981THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 14, 1941
* Rudolph Hess Scotland parachute jump mystery
* Adolph Hitler's right hand man
* World War II - WWII
This 44 page newspaper has five column headline on the front page: "FLIGHT SHOCKS THE GERMAN PEOPLE" with subheads.
Other news, sport and advertisements of the day throughout with more... Read full description -
Item #592978THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 28, 1940
* Wilhelm Strekel death (1st report)
* Austrian physician and psychologist
This 42 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 19: "WILHELM STREKEL, ONCE FREUD'S AIDE", "Former Chief Assistant to the Psychoanalyst Wrote Works on Mental Maladies" and more with... Read full description -
Item #592901THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, Nebraska, January 16, 1907
* Kingston - Jamaica earthquake
The front page has one column headings that include: "CITY RUINED BY QUAKE" "Kingston, Jamaica, Practically Destroyed by Seismic Disturbance" "Conflagration Follows The Shock" and more (see photos) 1st report coverage on the earthquake disaster... Read full description -
Item #592812THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 2, 1934
* Ghent Altarpiece stolen - ransom
* Jan van Eyck - Flemish painter
* Saint Bavo Cathedral
This 34 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Half of van Eyck Panal Believed Returned; Thieves Offer Rest for 1,000,000 Francs" First report coverage on the ransom attempt by the thieves... Read full description -
Item #592777THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 4, 1917
* United States close to World War I
* President Woodrow Wilson
This 20 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page:
"RELATIONS WITH GERMANY ARE BROKEN OFF; AMERICAN SHIP HOUSATONIC SUNK, CREW SAFE; MILITIA CALLED OUT; GERMAN SHIPS SEIZED" with subheads. A nice issue for... Read full description -
Item #592764PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Arizona, July 29, 1932
* Bonus Army conflict
This 6 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "TROOPS CLEAN OUT CAPITOL BONUS SEEKERS" with subheads (see).
This issue contains other news of the day. It has light browning and minor margin wear, but is otherwise in good condition.
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Item #592755THE OMAHA BEE-NEWS, Nebraska, January 16, 1929
* Babe Ruth in custody battle
* Ruth's life biography
This 18 page newspaper has a nice six column headline on the front page: "BATTLE OF RUTH'S DAUGHTER" with subheads that include: "'Exposure' Of 'Babe' Is Threatened". Coverage on the... Read full description -
Item #592700THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 15, 1962
* George Blanda 6 TD passes
* Houston Oilers - 56 points
* NFL football
This 60 page newspaper has one column headlines 37: "TITANS CRUSHED BY OILERS, 56-17", "Blanda Hurls 6 Touchdown Passes--Scoring Mark Set" with stats. 1st report coverage on Houston Oilers quarterback George... Read full description -
Item #592695THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 17, 1948
* Yankees - Yanks
* Joe DiMaggio hits 300th Home Run
* Best title to have
This 52 page newspaper has a one column headline on page 31 (sport's section): "DiMaggio Eighth Player To Smash 300 Home Runs". 1st report coverage on Joe DiMaggio hitting his 300th career... Read full description -
Item #592647THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 19, 1941
* Joe Louis - Brown Bomber
* Billy Conn
* Heavyweight boxing title fight
This 46 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "LOUIS, NEAR DEFEAT, STOPS CONN IN 13TH AND RETAINS CROWN", "Bomber Suddenly Turns Tide, Hammering Foe to Floor With Furious Attack" and more. Much... Read full description -
1st All-Star baseball game... Babe Ruth...
Item #592621CHRONICLE AND NEWS, Allentown, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1933.
* 1st All-Star Game (historic)
* Major league baseball MLB
* Babe Ruth shines
This 22 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on page 14: "Babe Ruth Proves Himself Still Baseball's Greatest Showman in All-Star Game"
with subhead (see... Read full description -
Item #592591THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 16, 1945
* USS Saratoga - aircraft carrier - USS Hazelwood
* Japanese kamikazes - Iwo Jima
* Joachim von Ribbontrop captured
This 28 page newspaper has a four column headline on the front page: "RIBBONTROP IS CAPTURED IN HAMBURG" with subheads. (see photos) Also on the front page are one column... Read full description -
Item #592570RESOLUTE OBSERVER, "Published on board during the Cruise Around the World." on the Hamburg-American Line, Feb. 27, 1932. An interesting broadside issue (printed on the front only) published daily during an 86-day cruise, with tidbits on the trip for that day including mileage, the day's destination, weather, conditions, etc. At... Read full description -
Item #592550THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 8, 1934
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Historical site formed
* World Series of baseball
Page 17 has one column headings that read: "FORMS WORLD SOCIETY TO HONOR EDGAR A. POE" and "Group Organizes at Philadelphia With Richard Gimbel as President". 1st report coverage on the formation... Read full description -
Item #592534THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 11, 1933
* Albert Einstein flees Nazis
* Pre World War II Europe
* Jewish persecution
Page 9 has one column headlines: "EINSTEIN IN REFUGE ON ENGLISH COAST", "Fleeing Nazi Threats, He Goes From London to a Little Known Spot on North Sea", "Closely Guarded There" and more.... Read full description -
Item #592527THE WORLD, New York City, March 10, 1930
* Babe Ruth's contract with New York Yankees
Page 7 has one column headlines: "BABE RUTH TO SIGN $160,000 CONTRACT WITH YANKS TO-DAY" and "Battalion of Photographers on Hand to Photograph Ceremony".
It is nice to have in a NYC title. Other news, sports and advertisements... Read full description -
Item #592503LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, January 14, 1929
* Babe Ruth
* Death of wife in fire
This 8 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "BABE RUTH MOURNS TRAGIC DEATH OF HIS FORMER WIFE" with subhead (see photos).
Other news, sports and various advertisements of the day throughout. Light... Read full description -
Item #592475THE PARSONS SUN, Kansas, April 18, 1961
* Elizabeth Taylor wins her 1st Oscar
* Butterfield 8 - Academy Awards
This 12 page newspaper has a four column photo at the bottom of the front page with caption: "Leaders In Oscar Parade" with shows some of the winners that year including Elizabeth Taylor (see photos).
Also a two column... Read full description -
Item #592443LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, July 11, 1941
* Acmar, Alabama mining explosion
This 10 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "EXPLOSION IN ALABAMA MINE FATAL TO 11", "Workers Search Debris For Bodies of Miners Buried in Shaft"
1s report coverage on the coal mine disaster at Acmar,... Read full description -
Item #592441THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, December 23, 1910
* Chicago, Illinois stockyards fire (1st report)
This 12 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "Chicago Stock-Yards Fire Loss Is Over $500,000". See photos for 1st report coverage on the 1910 Chicago stock yards fire disaster.
Other news, sports and... Read full description -
Item #592193THE EVENING NEWS, Detroit, Michigan, August 25, 1900
* Bob Fitzsimmons vs. Tom Sharkey
* Heavyweight boxing
This 10 page newspaper has one column headings on page 6: "GAME OLD 'FITZ'", "The Lucky One Knocked Sharkey Out in Second Round of Their Contest", "Sharkey Has Toppled Fitz Over Just at... Read full description -
Item #592166FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, August 17, 1960
* Joseph Kittinger parachute jump
* Excelsior III (1st report)
This 32 page newspaper has a two column photo of "Air Force Capt. Joseph Kittinger stands beside the open balloon gondola" with small caption: "Makes Record Leap".
Other news, sports... Read full description -
Item #592126THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 30, 1939
* Nile Kinnick "All American" team choice
* Iowa Hawkeyes - NCAA college football
* Maxwell award winner
This 44 page newspaper has one column headlines in the sport's section (page 26): "ALL-AMERICA POST IS WON BY KINNICK" and "Iowa Back Draws 577 Votes... Read full description -
Item #592121THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Springfield, Massachusetts, April 21, 1945
* Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp
* Horrors being revealed
* Hitler's last birthday
This 14 page newspaper has a two column heading on the front page: "Bestial Cruelty of Germans Shown at Concentration Camp". See... Read full description -
Item #592097THE RUSSELL DAILY NEWS, Kansas, October 26, 1957
* Mob boss Albert Anastasia assassination
* Murder Inc. head
This 6 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page: "Query Costello IN Gang Death" and "Anastasia Killing Baffles N.Y. Police".
Other news, sports and various advertisements of the day... Read full description -
Item #592061THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Detroit, Michigan, June 12, 1945
* Adolph Hitler & Eva Braun's children?
* World War II - WWII
This 16 page newspaper has a very interesting but small report on the front page with one column heading: "Report Allies Hunt 2 Hitler Offspring". This report claims that Hitler & Braun had two young... Read full description -
Item #592053LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, February 3, 1936
* Ty Cobb enters baseball's Hall of Fame
* The Georgia Peach rated # 1
* 1st Cooperstown, New York induction
This 8 page newspaper has a one column headline on the front page: "Cobb Reported 'Overwhelmed' By Honor". A historic first report... Read full description -
Item #592019THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, London, Jan. 23, 1901 An unusual issue as not only is there a canceled postage stamp noting that this issue was shipped to the United States through the mail, but it is applied to a large mailing label which is affixed to the top of the front page of the issue (covers the date but the date is at the top of... Read full description -
Item #591972NEW YORK TRIBUNE, November 29, 1915
* Henderson, Kentucky
* Negro lynching - hanging
This 14 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 3: "KENTUCKY MOB LYNCHES NEGRO", "Enters Jail by a Ruse and Swings Victim in the Public Square", "Gag Silenced Pleas For Life" and more. See photos for 1st report coverage on... Read full description -
Item #591932LEOMINSTER ENTERPRISE, Leominster, Massachusetts, December 24, 1968
* Apollo 8
* Moon mission
This 18 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "Astronauts, Apollo 8 Orbiting The Moon".
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Tiny binding holes along the spine, otherwise in nice condition. -
Item #591931FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, February 4, 1966
* Luna 9 Soviet union spacecraft
* 1st ever soft landing on the moon
This 18 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "Soviet Luna Ship Sends Pictures" with related diagram (see photos). 1st report coverage on the very 1st soft landing on the moon by... Read full description -
Item #591882SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, July 15, 1915
* Harry Kendall Thaw
* re. Sanford White murder
* Evelyn Nesbit
This 20 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "THAW FOUND INSANE","By Verdict Of Jury", "Judge Reserves Decision" and more with nice photo of... Read full description -
Item #591871THE DETROIT NEWS, Michigan, January 5, 1965
* T. S. Eliot death (1st report)
* Poetry - playwright & more
This 40+ page newspaper has a four column headline near the bottom of the front page: "Eliot, Poet of Generation, Dies" with small photo of Eliot. (see photos) 1st report coverage on the death of famous poet, Thomas... Read full description -
Item #591868SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Dec. 24, 1910 The front page of the issue is a full illustration: "How The Army Engineers Will Uncover The 'Maine.'" along with two small illustrated insets show a: "Longitudinal Section Through Cofferdam" & "Plain View of Cofferdam." which includes a report about this retrieval inside.
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Item #591833PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Arizona, October 13, 1932
* Illinois Mine War
* Taylorville, Illinois
This 6 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "NEW UPRISINGS AMONG FARM, MINE STRIKERS" with subheads (see photos). Coverage on the ongoing Illinois mine war. Nice headline for display here.
Other news... Read full description -
Item #591812PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Prescott, Arizona, September 30, 1932
* 1932 New York Yankees World Series
* Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig on team
* Chicago Cubs - MLB baseball
This 6 page newspaper has nice banner headline on the front page: "GOMEZ PITCHES YANKEES TO SECOND VICTORY" with subheads and box scores. 1st report coverage on the New... Read full description -
Item #591809PRESCOTT JOURNAL MINER, Prescott, Arizona, September 27, 1932
* Max Schmeling (German boxer)
* Heavyweight boxing
This 6 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page: "Schmeling Scores Technical Knock-out over Mickey Walker" with subheads (see photos). 1st report coverage on the heavyweight boxing match between Max Schmeling and Mickey... Read full description -
Item #591796PRESCOTT JOURNAL-MINER, Arizona, July 26, 1932
* Bonus Army
* World War I veterans
* Washington D.C. camps
This 6 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "FIRST BLOOD SHED IN RANKS OF BONUS ARMY" with subheads. Coverage on the gathering of World War I veterans in Washington D.C.
Other news,... Read full description -
Item #591685ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, September 22, 1905
* Early NYC mafia
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "Bomb Outrage In New York" and more. 1st report coverage on a bombing in New York City that was suspected as being done by the "Black Hand" which was a extortion racket by the early... Read full description -
Item #591682THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, May 24, 1963
* Mount Everest climbing 1st
* Nepal
This 52 page newspaper has a two column heading at the bottom of the front page: "U.S. Teams Make History In Everest Twin Assualt" with caption: "Summit Meeting" and two small photos of Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. 1st report... Read full description
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