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Overview and condition: complete issue comprising 28 pages, previously disbound from bound volume with five narrow punches to left blank margin; pages tanned, fragile and quite brittle, periodic edge chips and short closed edge tears; gentle pagination will still result in further edge chips and short closed edge tears. Packed with photographs. 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, motion picture news and reviews, cartoon strips, sports, and vintage advertisements. Highlights include: TRAP SET TO MURDER FOUR SISTERS: [Harry D. Williams] HELD IN DEATHS OF TWO NIECES, TOOK POISON; RAJAH [Hamil Singh] PAID AN EXTRA $100,000 AS HUSH MONEY; SHOT LANDLORD [Joseph Lentine] SHE SAYS PURSUED HER [Mrs. Sadie Amante]: 'HE'S WOUNDED IN MY ROOMS,' SHE TELLS WIFE; WOMAN LANDS ANY MAN SHE GOES AFTER, SAYS CHARLIE [Chaplin]; CHARLIE [Chaplin] AND HIS BRIDE IN FLIGHT FROM CAMERAS; four-paragraph MAID KILLS EMPLOYER, CUTS WIFE AND CHILD; [Rev. Clarence] SHEATSLEY NOW READY TO THINK WIFE [Addie Sheatsley] WAS SLAIN; NAZIMOVA BACK IN FILMS IN 'MADONNA OF STREETS'; editorial on the Sheatsley "Furnace Death" entitled "What About the Guinea Pigs?" (in short part: "Her husband, who waited quite a long time before he notified the authorities, expressed his conviction that his wife had crawled into the furnace, through a door ONLY 14 INCHES SQUARE, mind you"). Seller Inventory # 010318
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