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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: [with repeats of most news stories from earlier edition]; cover story BRAND SHERIFFS' SLAYER MATTSON BOY KIDNAPER: Posse Loses [Ray] Olson In Wilderness Trek (the kidnap-slaying of 10-year-old Charles Mattson); [Lieutenant Oliver F.] NAQUIN DESCRIBES SUB'S DEATH DIVE (the submarine Squalus); Young Mother Broken As Death Hits Twice (on Mrs. Dora Sweeney and her husband John Sweeney, who killed his son and then himself); KIWANIS [International] TO WAR ON ISMS; DAD'S WILD DASH SAVES BABY'S LIFE; [Attorney General Frank] MURPHY OUT TO RID U.S. OF SPIES 'IN ONE YEAR'; U.S. In 2 Notes Raps Japan's War Moves; Mrs. [Eleanor] Roosevelt Gets Debate Challenge; Harvard, Yale Renew Diamond Rivalry Today: MOVIES FAIL TO REVEAL [Sydney] WOODERSON 'FOUL'; Yankee Castoffs Fail to Help Browns. Seller Inventory # 010060
Bibliographic Details
Title: Boston Evening American (Tuesday, June 20, ...
Publisher: N. E. Newspaper Publishing Company, Boston, MA
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Newspaper
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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