1894 PASSAIC CITY HERALD. Massive Elephant Folio. 180 Issues, 1400 Pages. Lynching, China, Japan, Anarchists, &c.

These massive hauls of early newspapers are getting more and more difficult to obtain; they're often disassembled and sold for their constituent portions of interest. Not this one. It's all there. Issued daily, 8pp each day from Wednesday, August 1, 1894 through December 31, 1894, i.e. over 180 issues, each having 8 elephant folio, six column pages, i.e. over 1400 pages. There is a TON of great content here. 

The Passaic City Herald. Even Edition. August 1, 1894 through December 31, 1894. Passaic, New Jersey. 1894.

Measuring 16 x 20 inches, front board detached, paper very fragile [as usual] with some scattered tears. On the whole, very crisp and clean. Solidly bound. 

Take a look at what's in here! 

Contents include: Japan the First to Throw Down the Gloves - China Says her Ships did Escape | China Will Wage War with the Japs to the Bitter End | Shot by a Policeman | Robert E. Lee's Charger - Description of the Famous Animal Ridden by the General | Sleepwalking - Four Kinds of Somnambulism | Tobacco and Loss of Memory | Baseball - New York vs. Boston | Ruddite Kills Three in a Quarry Explosion | Darktown Uproar [ Description of Wild "Colored Folks" Church ] | Lynched by Negroes - Man who Accidently Shot a Black Man Taken and Hung by Black Community | Jim Corbett, the Famous Boxer [Illustrated Here] Writes about His Trip to Europe [Pugilist] | Premonitions of Death | The Anarchist Murderer of Carnot to be Guillotined - The Assassin's Bravado a Menace and Defiance | Fierce Flames at Work - Chicago has Another Big Blaze - Firemen Meet Death in Philadelphia and Detroit | Mrs. Adams Attempts to Drown Herself in Atlantic City | Woman Arrested for Chewing the Fingers Off Her Husband | Conviction of an Anarchist | One of the Cook Gang Killed and Another Shot and Captured | A Balloonist's Fall - Lamont Dropped 2,000 Feet and Survived | Li Hung Chang is in Disgrace - Japan Ready to Strike | The First Anarchist Murder in Passaic | Fatal Drug Found in Cherry Beer Bottles Kills 5,000 [Arsenic] | Chinese Troops Victorious in Another Battle in Korea | Twenty-Four Poisoned - Ex Employee Suspected | An Insane Woman's Suicide | Charming Little Illustration of "C Company" in Rifle Practice | Passaic Baseball League News | Two Women in Rowing Competition for their Lover | The New New York Constitution Should Abolish Justices of the Peace - They are a Curse | Another Charming Illustration of Soldiers at "Sea Girt" | Well-Dressed Young Woman Shoots Herself in the Head on the Way to Coney Island | Reported Capture of Three Chinese Warships by the Japs | Kow Shing Massacre Confirmed | In a Trance - An Infant Supposed to be Dead for Hours Revives | Mrs. Charlotte Smith, the Socialist and Leader of the Women's Rescue League Found Guilty of Assaulting a Man | Parson Arrested for Beating His Daughter | Wife Beater Mobbed and Narrowly Avoids Lynching | Slavs Wish to Help Japs Whip China | Physician Accused of Infanticide [ Abortion Interest ] | Horrible Suicide in the Tombs this Morning [of a man sentenced to be hanged] | Dressed in Man's Clothes a Wife Crushed her Husband's Skull | Omaha Ruled by a Mob - Packing House Strikes | Thomas Van Orden and His Trained Pugilist Horse [fantastic illustration] | The Colored Convention - Lynchings and Politics were the Subjects of Redhot Debate | Suffrage Debate at the Albany Convention | Queen Victoria's Coronation | Twenty-Four Killed in the Rock Island Disaster - Negro Suspected and Under Arrest | War on China's Shores | Epidemic of Suicides | Hydrophobia. Man Gone Mad from the Bite of His Own Dog | No Suffrage Vote Yet | Santo, the Assassin, Guillotined | Constitutional Convention Done with the Question - No Woman's Suffrage | Chinese Turn Tail from Japanese Fleet | Gathering in Shan-see - Armies of China and Japan Soon to Meet in a Big Battle | Japanese are War Mad | Policeman Kidnapped by Italians He was Sent to Arrest | Family of Thieves Tracked Down in New Jersey | King of Korea Declares Himself Independent of China | Thomas Williams, New Negro Policeman, Beaten at the Urging of Bystanders by Woman He was Arresting | Slaughter of the Japs | Body of a Murdered Baby Girl Washes Ashore Near Sandy Hook | Chinese Deserters Fleeing to America | Korea Turns to Japan for Help and Renounces Chinese | Honolulu News | Denny on Mixed Marriages | What is an Anarchist? | General Ezeta Will be Shot as a Rebel and a Criminal | Shot by an Insane Pole | Fight with Coxeyites | The Pythian Encampment - Thousands of Knights Tenting Around Washington | Bayard Brown - the Millionaire Hermit | Two Parties of Americans Lost on the Sea of Azov | Chinese Army Drives the Japs Out of Seoul | Fatal Riot in Chicago | Arrest of Moonshiners | Bruneau Guillotined for Murdering a Priest | Fifteen People Living in Mrs. Astor's Cottage - She Never Knew | The Woman Connected with the Vanderbilt Scandal | Revolt in Samoa Suppressed - Samoans Bombed | Breckenridge Supporter Kills an Owens Man in a Duel | Women Cause a Riot as they Insist on Voting in Deerfield, New Jersey, etc. etc. etc.

And all that is just in August!