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Overview and condition: complete issue comprising 36 pages, previously disbound from bound volume with four narrow punches to left blank margin; pages tanned, fragile and quite brittle, particularly along right fore-edges which show periodic tiny chips and short closed edge tears; short clear-tape to front cover; gentle pagination will still result in further edge chips and short closed edge tears. Published daily except Sunday, with headlines, lead stories and news items focused on murder, assorted criminal activity, and scandal, the issue also contains general news, columns (including Louella O. Parsons "Hollywood Today"), motion picture news and reviews, cartoon strips (including Popeye, Skippy, Secret Agent X-9, Joe Palooka, Mandrake the Magician, and Henry), serials, sports, vintage advertisements, all well-illustrated with photographs. Highlights include: [Clark] Gable Pitches Hay - Mum on Wedding (with front cover photo of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard); cover story HUNDREDS FLEE SO. BOSTON FIRE; COOLIDGE WIDOW [Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge) PAYS RESPECTS TO F.W. STEARNS [Frank Waterman Stearns]; [Francisco] Franco Adamnant [sic]: WARNS FOES SPAIN MUST BE UNITED by Princess Marie de Bourbon; LOUISE BROWNE OF 'SALLY' FAME RENOUNCES U.S.; Labor Conference Resumes With More Strife in Prospect; Boys Bewildered In Man's Shooting (on 7-year-old Ronald Sparks and Richard Sousa, 12, accused of shooting George Santora); G-Men's Chief [J. Edgar Hoover] Says [John H.] Howland a 'Fiend'; Wives Jobs 'Out' By Court Decision; 5 Married Women Pass in Bar Exams; U.S. WARNS STEEL TO END MONOPOLY; BRUINS N.H.L. ICE CHAMPS: [Bill "Flash"] Hollett's Two Goals Subdues Red Wings; short [Jack] Dempsey in Jam For Mat Row; column UNTOLD STORIES OF THE RING by Jack Conway; Ted Williams Replica of [Babe] Ruth: New Red Sox Rookie Colorful Figure. Seller Inventory # 010055
Bibliographic Details
Title: Boston Evening American (Wednesday, March 8,...
Publisher: N. E. Newspaper Publishing Company, Boston, MA
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Newspaper
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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