Daily Record (Monday, June 20, 1938 HOME EDITION): Boston's Home Picture Newspaper (Cover Headline: 12 DEAD IN R.R. WRECK)

Boston, MA: Northeastern Publishing Company. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising 36 pages, previously disbound from bound volume with four narrow punches to left blank margin; pages tanned, fragile and quite brittle, particularly along right fore-edges which show periodic tiny chips and short closed edge tears; gentle pagination will still result in further edge chips and short closed edge tears. Published daily except Sunday, with headlines, lead stories and news items focused on murder, assorted criminal activity, and scandal, the issue also contains general news, columns (including Harrison Carroll "Behind the Scenes in Movieland" and Sidney Skolsky "Life in Hollywood"), motion picture news and reviews, cartoon strips (including Mickey Mouse, Radio Patrol, Brick Bradford, Little Miss Muppet, Barney Google, Tillie the Toiler, Toots and Casper, Tarzan and the Forbidden City), serials, sports, vintage advertisements, all well-illustrated with photographs. Highlights include: cover story 12 DIE IN TRAIN WRECK: Crack Flier in River Plunge (Custer Creek, Montana); B's Hit No-Hit King But He Wins, 14-1 (on Johnny Vander Meer); New Suspect in Double Murder (on the double slaying of Dr. and Mrs. James G. Littlefield and slayer Paul N. Dwyer); 700,000 Cut Off as Jap War Machine Stalls in Flood (China); [Harvard University President James B.] CONANT SAYS SENIORS CAN SAVE DEMOCRACY (to the Harvard graduating class); Flags Train To Save 2, Drops Dead (on Albert Carter); [UAW President Homer] Martin Playing An Ace in Ouster; 70 Million Loaned for New Homes; Vera's [Vera Stretz] Victim a Spy: To Name Slain Nazi; U.S. to Probe Reds in Hub; [Bob] Pastor Slim Choice In Fight With [Al] McCoy: Garden Bout Tonight; [Gerald] Walker's Home Run in 4th Gives Palehose Edge; short Babe [Ruth] Makes Debut With Dodgers. . Good. Newspaper. 1st Edition. 1938.