THE NEW YORK TIMES ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER  - Special Rare "Rag Edition"

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(Most dates in 1927 - 1952 available, please contact us through eBay messaging with your requirements if not in our store)

Please note, we also have regular editions of the New York Times as well as our superb "rag editions" please contact through
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NORMALLY 30 PAGES PLUS - SUNDAY EDITIONS (MAIN SECTIONS ONLY) 50 PAGES PLUS

PAGE SIZE - 22.5" X 16" 

FRONT COVER HEADLINES:

WETS HELPED ELECT BLAINE, SAYS CURRAN

DELAY IN FREEING CONVICTS TRAPPED BY FIRE REVEALED BY INQUIRY; 317 PERISHED


INSIDE HEADLINES:

TROOPS IN MADRAS AWE 50,000 RIOTERS (PAGE 7)

Special and rare "rag edition":-
"The rag edition was produced on a very high quality newsprint, with a high percentage of cotton & linen content allowing the issues to remain very white & sturdy many years into the future. Given the subscription cost it is not surprising that libraries rather than individuals were the primarily subscribers". "The Times discontinued the rag edition in 1953".

Wonderful birthday gift with topical news from home and abroad including numerous photographs, stories, fashion and adverts.

We have a collection of these stunning newspapers, book reviews and magazines from the 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's 1960's 1970's for January, February, March, April, May, June, July August, September, October, November and December. Covering most dates in any given month.

We also have an extensive archive of American and Canadian newspapers, magazines and book reviews covering most of the United States.

Some of the titles include: New York Times, Post, Sun, Herald, Tribune, Journal of Commerce, Kansas City Star, Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Washington Times, Star, Baltimore, WSJ and many more titles.

Canada titles include - Montreal Daily Star, Gazette, Standard, La Patrie, Toronto Mail & Empire, Daily Star  

Please don't hesitate to contact us through eBay messaging with any specific dates or inquiries, we would be delighted to search for you.

PROFESSIONAL, HIGH QUALITY PACKING, AS WE STRIVE TO DELIVER YOUR ITEM IN THE BEST POSSIBLE CONDITION. 

 

Historical Events - April 1930


Apr 1 "Blue Angel" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich premieres in America
Apr 2 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
Apr 2 Ras Tafari Makonnen becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Apr 3 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
Apr 3 2nd Academy Awards: "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win
Apr 4 Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
Apr 4 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
Apr 4 The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
Apr 5 England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
Apr 6 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
Apr 6 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
Apr 10 George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
Apr 10 Thiokol synthetic rubber 1st produced in Yardley, New Jersey
Apr 12 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
Apr 12 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
Apr 14 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC
Apr 17 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
Apr 17 DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene
Apr 18 Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da.
Apr 19 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2
Apr 21 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
Apr 21 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid" premieres in Moscow
Apr 22 US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
Apr 22 British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, British India leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead.
Apr 25 "All Quiet on the Western Front", based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres premieres in New York (Outstanding Production 1930)
Apr 28 1st night organized baseball game played in Independence Kansas
Apr 29 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
Apr 29 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
Apr 29 Telephone connection Britain-Australia goes into service