TWO NEWSPAPERS FROM 1929 WITH HEADLINES
PROCLAIMING ACTION OF U.S. MARINES IN HAITI
Headline from The Lancaster Daily Eagle, Lancaster Ohio, for Saturday
evening, December 7, 1929, reads: U.S. MARINES BATTLE IN HAITI TO RESTORE
ORDER. Includes a one-column story complete on page one, mentioning that
Marines had killed Haitiens in a battle at Cayes, Haiti. Most of story
concerns diplomatic efforts on the part of Hoover to re-establish order
on the island. Second paper is The Marieta Daily Times, Marieta Ohio,
for the same date. Its headline reads: MARINES ORDERED TO HAITI TO
QUELL STRIKE: FIVE NATIVES KILLED AND 20 WOUNDED. Accompanied by
a one-column story complete on page one which describes the riot and fighting
at Aux Cayes and describes how the marines did everything possible to avert
firing, but were finally given no choice by the rioters, who remained defiant.
Story also describes additional Marines, many of whom were recently returned
from China and Nicaragua, leaving for Haiti from Quantico and Paris Island.
Both papers are complete. Flaws include four tiny holes along the
spine of each paper, where they were mounted or bound at one point, some
browning along edges, and some separation along the center fold.
Overall, both papers in sound condition.
Both papers,
$65.00
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