"MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER" BOUND 1916 NEWSPAPERS.
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Auction 192 - Part II
Item numbers 1053 though 2638 in auction 192
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Item Description
17x23.5" hardcover library volume collects issues of Alabama newspapers from Mar. 1 - Apr. 30, 1916. Headlines of note include: Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, first American air combat mission into Mexico, Easter Rising in Ireland, zeppelin bombings in Europe and rising US WWI worries. Paper also includes an extensive farm section with photos and articles on livestock and farm equipment. One edition contains special section on African-American accomplishments. Various men's and women's fashions are featured throughout. Comics include 3 by Rube Goldberg, a great anti-Wilson editorial cartoon with Teddy Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan as well as "Inanimated Weekly," a full page comic section featuring current events, as well as various ads with cartoon images of Uncle Sam. Great editorial cartoon featuring Pancho Villa going to Hell with devils. Various photos depict Mexican execution, numerous pictures of Zapata and Villa, President Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, General Pershing. Comedians Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin are also pictured. Advertising of note includes ads for Wrigley's gum featuring Arrow Boy as doughboy, Chero Cola, Goodrich Tires, Hoover "Suction Sweeper," Buster Brown Shoes, Maxwell House Coffee, Camel Cigarettes, Victrola ads, Al Jolson Columbia Records, Paramount Pictures, also includes large and graphic ad for Charlie Chaplin movie consisting of Chaplin's "Little Tramp" body with text printed inside as well as various vintage car ads for Ford, Oldsmobile, Abraham Brothers, Dort and Weaver-Henderson. Volume contains 9 Coca-Cola ads. Blank back page is loose and pages have chips, tears and creases along margins. Covers have spine and corner tip wear. Fine overall.
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