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I have an early motion picture catalog published in 1909 by Amusement Supply Co. of Chicago. Placed inside it loose is this facsimile of a news paper article to serve as a company testimonial.

I am trying to find out if this column is authentic or bogus. It just does not read like a newspaper article, IMHO.

In printed-in-cursive it says its from the "Commercial Chronicle" of Chicago and dated March 22, I presume 1907 or 08.

I cant find the answer in Google but did the "Commercial Chronicle" ever exist?

If so does this column appear in the March 22 edition of that paper in either 1907 or 1908?

Any help on this is greatly welcome. I dont have access to that online historical newspaper site.

The one article with "queer assortment of married couples in Hungary" shows up in several papers online but "Rapid development of business of the Amusement Supply Company...." does not.

The Chicago Chronicle was a real newspaper. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045010/

This is supposedly from the COMMERCIAL CHRONICAL of Chicago.

The state of Illinois has tried to microfilm historically significant IL newspapers.
I don't see that title in their list:

https://www.illinois.gov/alplm/library/ ... ounty.aspx" target="_blank" target="_blank

Rick

Have you tried contacting the main Chicago library or perhaps University of Chicago? Perhaps they have it on microfilm. You can probably check their catalogs online. You might want to check Worldcat and see if any libraries have it.

This lists Commercial Chronicle https://books.google.com/books?id=x2wPA ... go&f=false
This claims the Chicago Daily Journal was aka Chicago Daily Journal and Daily Commercial Chronicle.
http://www.library.illinois.edu/inp/res ... c=12352717