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This is an original issue of The Ocean Wireless News from January 1915.   This is actually two pieces with the first being a slick glossy magazine of 24 pages plus the covers measuring about 8.5" x 10.75" titled The Ocean Wireless News.  Also included is four page smaller format typed newspaper also titled The Ocean Wireless News with a masthead that reads in part: 


News Received Direct by Marconi Wireless - The Ocean Wireless News - Published at Sea - Saturday Jan. 23rd 1915 - Issue No. 2 

This smaller newspaper was inserted in the magazine and is also marked:

Enroute Jacksonville, Fla. to New York Via Charleston, S.C. - On board the S.S. Apache, A.P. Watson Commander

The newspaper has the First Class Passenger List for the voyage as well as news of Zeppelin sightings over the English Channel, news from the battle front of Europe, news of the presidential election in Mexico and more.  This newspaper was a novel product that allowed passengers on ocean liners and steamships to received updated news from shore in the form of a small printed newspaper using the ship's Marconi wireless system.  This original newspaper is an early example printed only a couple years after the Titanic disaster.

The SS Apache was a steamship operated by the Clyde Steamship Company.  Also included is a large leaf that was inserted in the magazine.  

The magazine has lots of travel related advertising and is fully complete and in very good shape overall with only some dust staining on the covers and minor wear.  The printed newspaper has a bit of what looks to be insect damage along the top edge with minor loss confined to the margin not affect the text but is otherwise fully complete and in good shape overall.  Email any questions.  Thanks for looking.        

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