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To The Fort Worth Record, ca. July 1928, "Tunney
can’t win …" (See Notes)
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The information below is from Paul Herman:
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Back in the 20s and 30s, newspapers released multiple different
versions daily (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Home, Newsstand, Regional, etc.).
These editions would have some content the same, some different.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Fort Worth Record were owned by the
same company during that era, and so they also no doubt shared some content.
Libraries around the state of Texas no longer save old newspapers. Instead,
they decided to digitize them and chose to ONLY save one edition for each
date, typically the "Home" or "Newsstand" editions, none of the others.
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At the right is a scan from
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram page from REH's personal collection of papers.
The full page does not state what edition it is from.
If one goes and looks at the digitized Fort Worth Star-Telegram
for July 20, 1928, this page is not there.
This means that REH's letter appeared in something other than the Home
edition.
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Around the year 2000 (when
multiple editions still existed in microfiche or microfilm versions), Paul
Herman located the REH letter in the Fort Worth Record on file at
the Dallas Public Library. A copy trimmed down
to 8.5x11 that did not include the header or any other details was
obtained. Cross Plains is west of Fort Worth and several
other items on that sports page are about sports in the rural areas to the
west of Fort Worth, the page with REH's letter may have been from a "Regional"
or "West Texas" edition. Additionally, the letter appeared in a section
of the paper called "Fanatic Frenzy," where fan letters were published.
"Fanatic Frenzy" was a regular feature of the Fort Worth Record, NOT the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Checking the one edition of the Fort Worth Record
still extant for July 20, 1928, it does not contain the REH letter.
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The only record that the letter ever existed
at all, is the actual page from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that REH kept
and a copy in Paul Herman's collection from the Fort Worth Record.
Consequently, we do know that the REH letter was published
in at least one edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
and at least one edition of the Fort Worth Record, though
possibly more, of course.
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