The Day Dillinger Died.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU THROW OUT FROM YOUR OFFICE!

He was the "rock star" of the Depression-era.

America's Public Enemy #1 that helped promote the image of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

He was a robber, murderer--who idolized Jesse James.

He robbed from the "wealthy" to big to fail banks that were hurting the little guy.

One half hour before he was shot--he signed an autograph for a young girl who thought he was a dashing Hollywood movie star as he was leaving the Biograph theatre in Chicago.

The little girl was attending the Biograph's feature "Manhattan Melodramea" and didn't know who he was--but assumed he was someone famous. The little girl was Francis Ethel Gumm--better known as Judy Garland.

The above pics are the original Kansas City Star that I found in my grandfather's family Bible--dating from 1895 (see pic below--along with grandfather and mother's pic circa 1938).

Also discovered, we're two stock certificates (below) that my grandmother had purchased in 1922--for 50 shares in American Petroleum Co. and Texas Petroleum Co. I had them checked out--and no--they weren't Amoco and Texaco (darn!), but two wildcatters that went belly up!

Pretty amazing things you can find if you just look! I had just completed a move and now have these in storage. The remainder of the Dillenger paper talks about Will Rodgers getting out of hospital soon, Charles Lindbergh to testify before Congress. The Topeka Women's bridge club will play at 5am in order to beat the heat (forecast was for 102 that day)--and finally--the blurp below Dillengers death report--with parenthesis drawn by it--an article that women wearing strapless dresses--subject to arrest!

In addition--I found original KC Star newspapers of Germany Surrenders and Japan Surrenders from 1945.

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