Lot 219:
The Cleveland Press Sept 1933 Bound Newspaper
Sold for: $20
Description
18×24 A bound folio-format volume comprising the complete daily issues of The Cleveland Press for the month of September 1933. The newspapers are professionally housed in a library-style binding of blue cloth over heavy boards, featuring a black leatherette spine label with gold-stamped lettering. The interior contains daily editions documenting Depression-era news, local Cleveland history, and cultural ephemera. Notable front-page headlines include coverage of a 100,000-person parade on Euclid Avenue, U.S. Coast Guard actions against Prohibition-era "Rum Row" smugglers, and the conviction of thirteen individuals in the Urschel kidnapping case. The volume preserves significant period advertising, including illustrated spreads for The Higbee Co. department store, and complete pages of comic strips such as Buck Rogers, 25th Century A. D., Alley Oop, and Freckles and His Friends. The pages consist of original newsprint and are bound in chronological order.
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