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Overview and condition: complete issue comprising 32 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; 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 The Phantom, Popeye, Skippy, Secret Agent X-9); serials, sports, vintage advertisements, all well-illustrated with photographs. Highlights include: cover story U.S. TANKER AIDS 214 ON JAP SHIP AFIRE IN PACIFIC (the American tanker Associated and the Japanese liner Bokuyo Maru); $5000 Fines to Face Pardon Racketeers; PROBE 3 MERCY PLANE DEATHS; NEW CUT HITS 170 IN HUB AS WPA STRIKE LOSES OUT; SECOND U.S. GIRL SNUBS HITLER BID (Hitler's invitation to Marion Daniels to fly to Munich to appear in "The Merry Widow"); Silence Hides Bridal Secret in 2 Divorces; Watch That Frown For Candid Camera Is Out to Get You!; [Jacob Hugo] Tatsch, Noted Mason, Dies on Visit to London; DANZIG LEADERS PONDER 'REUNION'; short ROUND UP 50 NAZIS IN BRITAIN; HUB FRIED CHICKEN 'HEAVEN' AIDS CULT (on the "Boston branch of the New York Negro cult" of Father Divine); THORNTON WILDER EXCELS IN DEBUT ON COHASSET STAGE; MY DAY by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; short editorial KEEP U.S. OUT OF WAR ("Get your scissors, clip the slogan at the top of this column and paste it near the inspection sticker on the windshield of your automobile"); I Wasn't Drinking Or Fighting - [Dizzy] Dean; [Bucky] WALTERS' HEAVING KEEPS REDS IN LEAD; Carl Morris Fight Turning Point in [Jack] Dempsey's Career. Seller Inventory # 010065
Bibliographic Details
Title: Boston Evening American (Tuesday, July 18, ...
Publisher: N. E. Newspaper Publishing Company, Boston, MA
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Newspaper
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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