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Hale's piano factory fire disaster...



Item # 613642

September 04, 1877

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Missouri, September 4, 1877

* Hale' piano factory fire
* Samuel Archer King - ballooning


This uncommon Midwestern title has news of the day with many advertisements. The front page has an article headed: "TOMBS OF FIRE" "A Fearful Sacrifice of Human Life" "Two Hundred People Imprisoned in a Burning Factory" "An Many More Maimed for Life" and more.
Page 2 has: "Up In A Balloon" "The Trip of prof. King's Big Air Ship 'Buffalo'..."
This issue is not fragile as newsprint back then was made of cotton and linen rags, allowing them to remain very pliable and easy to handle. Complete in 8 pages, minor irregularity along spine, very nice condition.

Category: Post-Civil War