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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 BRAND SHERIFFS' SLAYER MATTSON BOY KIDNAPER: Posse Loses [Ray] Olson In Wilderness Trek (the kidnap-slaying of 10-year-old Charles Mattson); HUNDREDS BATTLE HOUSING OUSTER; Murder and Suicide Crush Young Mother (Mrs. Dora Sweeney and her husband John Sweeney, who killed his son and then himself); Kiwanis [International] Opens Isms War on Two Fronts, Drafts 8-Point Plan; HAMMER KILLER'S FLIGHT BRINGS WOE TO MOTHER (on Velma West, "husband hammer-slayer of the flapper era"); QUIZ MORE STARS AT BUCKNER TRIAL (William P. Buckner, Jr.); [Attorney General Frank] MURPHY AIMS TO RID U.S. OF SPIES IN YEAR: Finds U.S. Is Lax In Espionage Drive; TWO STERN U.S. NOTES RAP JAP WAR MOVES; Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt Gets Debate Challenge; Harvard, Yale Renew Diamond Rivalry Today: Tom Healey Locks Horns With [Monroe] Jubitz; MOVIES FAIL TO REVEAL [Sydney] WOODERSON 'FOUL'; Yankee Castoffs Fail to Help Browns. Seller Inventory # 010059
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