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Description:
Item: Vintage ca. 1950s Bismarck, North Dakota "History...through the pages of The Bismarck Tribune" Souvenir Booklet
Publisher: The Bismarck Tribune
Year of Publication: Undated - ca. 1950s
Total of Unnumbered Pages: 56
Size: 4 & 3/4"W x 6"H
Format: Soft-Cover
Dust Jacket: N/A
LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with Photographic Images of Newspaper Front Pages/Headlines from the Year of Inception of the Newspaper, 1873, up through the year 1951!
Condition: EXCELLENT+++
*Cover/Exterior - evinces only very moderate, light surface handling
*Binding/Spine - original stapling remains intact with no loose or missing pages
*Interior Contents - crisply clean pages evince no noted writings, foxing, markings, water damage, staining, or odors of any kind
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS "FRONT PAGE" HEADLINES SUMMARIES:
*July 11, 1873 - Premiere Issue
*July 6, 1876 - "First Account of the Custer Massacre"
*November 4, 1884 - "The Birth of the Twins"
*1885 - "Great Loss By Fire - Handsomest Business Portion of the City Razed to the Ground By a Disastrous Fire..." (About the burning to the ground of the Newspaper Plant - one of three different times in its history - along with most of Bismarck’s business district)
*1899 - "Boys Home Again" (covering the return of the Troops from the Spanish-American War)
*April 18, 1917 - "Congress Declares for War - German Vessels in American Ports Are Seized" (covering the outbreak of the First World War)
*1918 - "War Over When Germany Signs Armistice and Brings Peace to Victorious Allied Nations"
*December, 1930 - "Fire Destroys State Capitol - Explosion Held Cause of Blaze Which Brings Loss Totaling Millions"
1934 - "New Capitol Edition" of The Bismarck Tribune
*1938 - "Tribune Wins Pulitzer Service Award"; "FDR Objects to Congressional Control Over Relief"
*1939 - "Golden Jubilee Edition - 50th Anniversary of The State of North Dakota"
*December 7, 1941 - "U.S. At War - Pearl Harbor, Honolulu Bombed by Japan; 350 Men Killed at Air Base; Warship Fired"
*December 8, 1941 - "War Declared! Senate 82-0; House 388-1; 3,000 Killed, Wounded in Jap Attack on Honolulu; 2 U.S. Ships Said Sunk"
*April 12, 1945 - "Roosevelt Dies in Sleep"
*May 7, 1945 - "Germany Quits - Tuesday to Be V-E Day"; "Surrender Comes at 2:41 A.M. Monday in Little Red Schoolroom"
*August 6, 1945 - "Atomic Bomb Rocks Japan; New Weapon Spells Utter Destruction" (Hiroshima); "Bismarck Wallops New England for State Title"
*August 10, 1945 - "Japanese Sue for Peace - 33 Killed in Great Northern Wreck"
*December 31, 1946 - "Hostilities End Officially - Taft Heads Senate Steering Committee" (President Truman declares the official end of hostilities in the Great War)
*October 1, 1947 - "Dam Job Nears Start - Rail Unions Ask Wage Increases" (re: start of construction of Garrison dam on the Missouri River north of Bismarck)
*September 14, 1948 - "Top ND Harvest Nearly Over - Speakers Praise Water Program" (plentiful rains combined with good prices to give North Dakota farmers and businessmen years of good crops and prosperity during the "forties")
*June 30, 1950 - ‘U. S. Troops to Fight" (the Korean War)
*April 5, 1951 - "Oil Flowing at Tioga" (the discovery of oil in commercial quantities at Tioga, in Williams county); "Rosenbergs Get Death"
*Photo of Colonel Clement A. Lounsberry (Tribune Editor, 1873-1881)
*Photo of Marshall H. Jewell (Tribune Editor, 1881-1911)
*Photo of George Douglas Mann (Tribune Editor, 1917-1936)
*Photo of Mrs. George Douglas Mann (Tribune Editor, 1936-)
*Tribune’s First Offices/Building
*"Headstone" Tribute to the Memory of Mark Kellogg, Correspondent of the New York Herald and Reporter for the Bismarck Tribune Who Fell Here with General Custer June 25th 1876"
*Pulitzer Medal
*Tribune’s Current Office Building
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: Bismarck_Tribune_Newspaper_History_Booklet |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
ca 1951
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| Height:
6 in. (15.24 cm) |
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Width: 4.75 in. (12.06 cm)
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