Daily Record (Saturday, June 11, 1938 MAIL EDITION): Boston's Home Picture Newspaper (Cover Headline: KILLED BOY, THEN SOUGHT RANSOM: Florida Kidnaper's Confession [Franklin Pierce McCall])

Boston, MA: Northeastern Publishing Company. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising 40 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 Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen "The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round" and Walter Winchell "On Broadway"), 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: Reds Hit Report As 'Hitler Book' (legislative commission report on subversive activities); 8 Army Fliers Die as Storm Downs Bomber; Newspapers Talk to John And Fiancee (on Anne Lindsay Clark and John Aspinwall Roosevelt); cover story KILLED BOY BEFORE SEEKING RANSOM (on Franklin Pierce McCall and his confession to the murder of five-year-old Jimmy Cash, Jr.); Grand-dad's $102,000 for Girl of Four (on Joseph I. Melanson and his granddaughter heiress Sylvia Phillips Melanson); CIO 'Dangerous' Is Hague's Riot Plea; ILL MOTHER OF 9 EVICTED (on Mrs. Margaret DiCicco, with front cover photo); 4 Sox Pitchers Walloped, 15-2; [Sig] Somy Hurls 1-Hit B.C. Win; Helen [Wills Moody] Paces U.S. To Tennis Lead; [Harold 'Jug'] McSpaden's 67 Tops U.S. Golf: Jim Hines Adds 75; Olympiad Aide Hits [William J. 'Big Bill'] Bingham: Jap Envoy Replies. . Good. Newspaper. 1st Edition. 1938.