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January 14, 1929
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, N.Y., Jan. 14, 1929 Ftpg. 3 line, 2 col. head just below the dateline: "Babe Ruth's Wife Dies in Fire in Doctor's Home; His 'Wife' Also, Police Say" & subhead: "Baseball Star Says They Were Separated 3 Years; Neighbors Knew Her Only as Mrs. Kinder". Detailed report includes a one col. photo of "Mrs. Babe Ruth" just below the heads. Smaller 3 line, 1 col. head at the top of the 2nd col. on the ftpg: "Death Claims Earp, Nemesis Of Bad Men In Tombstones' Past". The report begins: "The West lost another of its few remaining frontier gun fighters today with the death...of Wyatt Earp, seventy-eight, once a peace officer at Dodge City, Kansas and Tombstone, Arizona." And more. Binding slits and a few small pieces missing at the spine, otherwise good.
Category: The 20th Century





