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  ARKHAM NEWSPAPER
  This prop is based on actual vintage newspapers.
  Newspapers in the time of Lovecraft were generally larger than they are today. It was common to
  have an eight-column layout that was 17 inches wide and 24 inches tall. This prop has been adjust-
  ed to fit a standard current newspaper.
  This is the full-size, one-sheet version. You’ll need access to a large format printer to work with it.
  Print on large format newsprint, if possible, or ordinary white paper.
  NOTE: The prop looks best copied onto newsprint, naturally, but some copy shops (like Kinko’s) won’t
  let you run newsprint through their machines. If your copy shop is willing to cooperate, obtain large
  sheets of newsprint from an arts & crafts supply store. It’s usually sold in the form of large sketch
  pads. 
  TO INSERT YOUR OWN ARTICLE:
  You’ll have to write and lay out your own articles that are appropriate for your game(s), but using the
  fonts on this CD you can make them match the style of this prop. In the word processing or page lay-
  out program of your choice, write and lay out your article, remembering that standard newspaper
  columns are two inches wide. Use the font matching guide below for reference. Print your article on
  ordinary white paper, and cut out and glue or tape into the full newspaper layout, covering one of the
  existing articles. When you make your copy of the full-size newspaper layout, your custom article will
  be part of the resulting newspaper.
  FONT MATCHING GUIDE:
  MYSTERY DERELICT
  HPLHS Headline 1
  SIX INJURED
  HPLHS Headline 2
  Vigilant Arrives
  HPLHS OldStyleItalic
  Odd Idol Found        HPLHS Slab Serif
  HPLHS OldStyle1
  (8 pt. type, 9.5 pt leading)
  Hazers Burn Faces and
  Bodies of 3 M. U. Girls
  8
  Three Miskatonic University co-eds are
  recovering from a week’s painful illness
  and a narrow escape from having their
  beauty marred for life as the result of the
  introduction of college fraternity “rough
  stuff” in their initiation into the Delta
  Kappa Gamma sorority last April Fool’s
  day.
  shift-option-hyphen
  gets this underline
  character in 
  HPLHS Headline 1 or
  HPLHS Headline 2
  
  8
  Rescued Seaman Refuses
  Particulars of Strange Experience
  8
  Odd Idol Found in His Possession
  8
  Inquiry to Follow
  [SPECIAL TO THE ADVERTISER]
  SYDNEY, 
  April 
  18.—The
  Morrison Co.’s freighter Vigilant,
  bound from Valparaiso, arrived this
  morning at its wharf in Darling
  Harbour, having in tow the battled
  and disabled but heavily armed steam
  yacht Alert of Dunedin, N. Z., which
  was sighted April 12th in S. latitude
  34° 21’, W. longitude 152° 17’, with
  one living and one dead man aboard.
  The Vigilant left Valparaiso March
  25th, and on April 2d was driven consid-
  erably south of her course by exceptional-
  ly heavy storms and monster waves. On
  April 12th the derelict was sighted; and
  though apparently deserted, was found
  upon boarding to contain one survivor in
  a half-delirious condition and one man
  who had evidently been dead for more
  than a week.
  The living man was clutching a horri-
  ble stone idol of unknown origin, about a
  foot in height, regarding whose nature
  authorities at Sydney University, the
  Royal Society, and the Museum in
  College Street all profess complete baffle-
  ment, and which the survivor says he
  found in the cabin of the yacht, in a small
  carved shrine of common pattern.
  This man, after recovering his senses,
  told an exceedingly strange story of pira-
  cy and slaughter. He is Gustaf Johansen,
  a Norwegian of some intelligence, and
  had been second mate of the two-masted
  schooner Emma of Auckland, which
  sailed for Callao February 20th, with a
  complement of eleven men.
  The Emma, he says, was delayed and
  thrown widely south of her course by the
  great storm of March 1st, and on March
  22d, in S. latitude 49° 51’, W longitude
  128° 34’, encountered the Alert, manned
  by a queer and evil-looking crew of
  Kanakas and half-castes. Being ordered 
  peremptorily to turn back, Capt. Collins
  VOL.   LVI. — NO.—47.    J
  TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1925.
  HOME EDITION.   # # # #
  PRICE TWO CENTS.
  Brisbane Denies Marriage Rumors
  Mr. Luther Brisbane, proprietor of
  Arkham’s own Brisbane Brick Works,
  today said there was “absolutely nothing”
  in rumors that he was soon to be married
  to Mrs. Adolph Spreckles of San
  Francisco, widow of the nationally known
  sugar magnate.
  8
  Flashes Badge at Hotel, Pays $5 Fine
  Flashing a badge that looked like that
  worn by policemen, Roman Struck, 39
  years old, 530 Powder Mill st., threatened
  the owners of a hotel at Gedney and
  Armitage st. with arrest.
  The sight of two policemen, who were
  called, induced Struck to step into his
  more accustomed role of a civilian. When
  questioned by police as to why he made
  the impersonation, he replied, “I thought
  it would be fun.”
  In district court today he was fined $5
  on charge of being drunk.
  8
  Kiwanis To Hold Meet With Farmers
  The Kiwanis club this week will meet
  at the dairy building of the County
  Agricultural school. The meeting will be
  held Wednesday noon in connection with
  the county fair and farmers will sponsor
  the program for the Kiwanians.
  Outside 4th Zone (1 year) Daily and Sunday, $16;
  Daily Only, $12: Sunday Only, $5. By Mail (1 year). 
  Don’t Let the Future Take Care of Itself—
  Be on the Alert for a Better Job
  Every big business has plenty of room for the men who have real ability to do things.
  If you have the feeling that you are capable of holding down a better job—GO OUT
  AFTER IT.
  One of the easiest ways to get in touch with a better position is to tell the business
  men that you are anxious to progress and to tackle a REAL job, and the way to do it is to
  use ADVERTISER JOB LISTINGS.
  The SITUATIONS WANTED column is consulted freely by those who are anxious
  to secure competent employes.
  ARTIST DIVORCED
  PARIS, April 18 (By A. P.).—Mrs. Lucile
  Wolfe Burton was granted a divorce today from
  William O. Burton, American portrait painter,
  now living in Paris.
  GOLD IN GLACIER
  STOCKHOLM, April 18 (By A. P.).—
  Norwegians may seek unknown land, but some
  Swede engineers have found rich gold, silver
  and copper deposits in an arctic glacier, using
  new electrical prospecting apparatus.
  ON WRECKED TRAIN
  MEXICO CITY, April 17 (By A. P.).— The
  train which was wrecked near Pachuca was car-
  rying troops from Pahuca to Ixmiquilpan. Ten
  men were reported killed and 30 injured. A mili-
  tary relief train was sent to the scene.
  PRINCE DROVE TRUCK
  LONDON, April 18 (By A. P.).—The prince
  of Wales is becoming a regular Harun Al
  Raschid. It develops that during the strike he
  drove a motor truck and helped distribute milk
  to the poor.
  100 KILLED IN BATTLE
  TANGIER, Morocco, April 17 (By A. P.).—
  More than a hundred members of the Spanish
  foreign legion are reported to have been killed
  and a large number wounded in fighting at Rio
  Martin, near Tetuan. Another party numbering
  360 persons are reported to have been surround-
  ed in a ravine by the tribesmen, all being cap-
  tured or killed.
  IGNORES REBELS
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 17 (By A.
  P.).— The revolutionary governor at Bluefields
  has called upon W. J. Crampton, American col-
  lector of customs there, to deliver the customs
  revenue to him. The collector refused and has
  requested protection for himself and his staff
  against the rebels.
  at la nt i c sh i ps d i sa b le d
  WEATHER FORECAST
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  Arkham and vicinity—Fair Tuesday and
  Wednesday; normal temperature.
  Boston and vicinity—Fair and mild Tuesday
  and Wednesday.
  TEMPERATURES (Max.)
  MYSTERY DERELICT 
  FOUND AT SEA
  8
  Vigilant Arrives with Helpless 
  Armed New Zealand Yacht in Tow
  8
  ONE SURVIVOR AND DEAD MAN FOUND ABOARD
  8
  Tale of Desperate Battle and Deaths at Sea
  MISKATONIC CO-EDS ARE “PHARAOH SCHOLARS” IN DISTANT EGYPT
  S. Francisco . . . . . 72
  Seattle . . . . . . . . . 60
  Denver. . . . . . . . . 65
  New York. . . . . . . 59
  Chicago . . . . . . . . 62
  Philadelphia . . . . . 68
  Providence . . . . . . 65
  New Orleans . . . . . 73
  FINAL EDITION
  rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
  IN TODAY’S ADVERTISER
  SPORTS NEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6
  M. U. track star James Bowen says he’s ready for the
  meet against Boston.
  STOCK REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 10
  MAGAZINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11
  A new serial feature, Mary, begins the story of the
  “battle of the flappers.”
  CROSSWORD...........Page 12
  CLASSIFIED ADS . . Page 13
  OBITUARIES ............Page 8
  SOCIETY PAGE . . . . Page 9
  FOUR SHIPS WRECKED
  8
  Heavy Storms Off Eastern
  Coast Endanger Vessels
  8
  ONE SHIP SIGNALS “WE ARE SINKING!”
  [ BY A. P. NIGHT WIRE ]
  NEW YORK. April 18.—Out of the fury of the storm-swept Atlantic
  today came wireless calls for aid from two sinking vessels, and news of the
  disabling of several others. The Italian freighter Moncenisio, from Norfolk
  to Marseilles, with a crew of thirty, sent out frantic appeals for help early
  today.
  9
  READY TO OPEN
  TOMB AT LUXOR
  8
  Miskatonic University’s
  “Pharaoh Scholar” Program
  Nearing Completion of Goal
  [ BY CABLE—EXCLUSIVE DISPATCH ]
  LUXOR, April 18.—There is
  every evidence here today that
  Miskatonic University professor of
  archæology Arthur Chapman and
  his assistants are opening the sealed
  door leading from the main tomb to
  that portion where it is hoped the
  mummy of King Imhotep will be
  found.
  Miskatonic dean Robert T. Hayes and
  the university’s board of regents will
  arrive tomorrow and everything is being
  done to give show them the results of the
  university program’s work.
  There remains nothing in the outer
  recess but the two statues guarding the
  secret entrance, and even if the excava-
  tors desire to remove them now it is quite
  unlikely that it would have been neces-
  sary to do all that is being done today.
  Huge planks and other equipment which
  might be used in opening the sealed door
  have been carried into the place and from
  time to time those allowed near the
  entrance could hear sounds that suggest-
  ed that the secret door was being
  attacked. 
  It is believed that professor Chapman
  and his student helpers are getting every-
  thing ready so that the regents may be
  among the first to enter the mystery
  chamber Sunday morning. 
  The excavators are taking no chances
  on possible pitfalls within the darkened
  chamber beyond. They are fully prepared
  to bridge the pit if one should be found as
  has been in other tombs, but the impres-
  sion prevails that the next chamber will
  be found much as the first with the inclu-
  sion of the body of the king.
  The “Pharaoh Scholar” program is an
  ambitious new academic plan under the
  leadership of dean Hayes. If this year’s
  work is successful, students next year will
  conduct archæological work at Qasr
  Farafra oasis, under the leadership of
  noted Egyptologist Sir E. A. Wallis
  Budge.
  SIX INJURED IN
  EARLY MORNING
  AUTO WRECKS
  8
  BY JACK CARLTON
  Six persons were injured in early
  morning auto accidents in Arkham
  today. 
  Hugo Engler, 26, a civil engineer
  employed by the city waterworks depart-
  ment, miraculously escape serious injury
  or death when his automobile was struck
  by a New York Central & Western pas-
  senger train at the Federal street cross-
  ing.
  Although the automobile was thrown
  a considerable distance and demolished,
  Engler, who lives at 414 Saltonstall st.,
  was able to crawl from the wreckage
  unassisted and at St. Mary’s hospital,
  where he was taken by a passing
  motorist, his injuries were said to consist
  of only minor cuts from the broken glass
  and bruises.
  F. S. Stewart, a student at Miskatonic
  University, brought Engler to the hospi-
  CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
  LIFE-LONG WORRIES.
  I don’t believe I’ve ever known any-
  body whose hair wasn’t falling out.
  Certainly, I’ve never heard any person,
  male or female, say: “My hair doesn’t
  come out in handfuls. My hair is quite
  thick, grows just about right, and causes
  me no great concern. It is neither too dry
  nor too oily, and it does not need mow-
  ing, massaging, burning, drying or fall
  plowing. I am very well satisfied with
  my hair.”
  On the other hand, falling hair is a
  never-ending source of conversation. If
  you want to avoid committing yourself
  on the tariff, the peace treaties, the
  nationality of the family that has just
  moved in next door, or to the doctrine of
  the Everlasting Return, you should
  remark: “It’s ghastly the way my hair is
  coming out this winter!” I guarantee you
  a talkative evening starting right there.
  8
  Women talk more about falling hair
  than men, but that is because women like
  to discuss any topic even remotely related
  to beauty. Men spend plenty of time wor-
  rying about their hair, as far as that’s
  concerned. I’ve heard reams of conversa-
  tion about various methods of stopping
  falling hair when business conferences
  were supposed to be occupying the time
  of the executive council.
  Is hair worth as much talk and worry?
  I suspect not. It might be worth while to
  worry about hair if there were really any
  general threat against human hair, but I
  don’t believe there is, or ever has been.
  True, some people are bald, but they are
  mostly men, and they look no worse for
  their baldness, so far as I can see.
  8
  We go through life, most of us, wor-
  rying about unimportant things that are
  not in a worrisome condition. A very rich
  New Yorker spent 55 years worrying
  about an imaginary blood disease that he
  believed to be ravaging his system. He
  was perfectly healthy, but he finally
  killed himself because he worried himself
  insane over a disease he was never in the
  slightest danger of contracting. 
  I don’t go so far as to say you mustn’t
  worry about anything. But you can add
  56 per cent to the joy of life by refusing
  to worry about falling hair, falling mar-
  kets, falling arches, and similar standing
  worry topics.
  8
  SPLINTERS
  The shortening of table knives comes too
  late to do much good. Most of the tonsils
  are out now.
  The four-flusher who boasts that he runs
  things at his house is referring to the
  lawn mower and the washing machine.
  There were 732 fatal accidents last
  month, not counting the times when dry
  agents stumbled with their guns pointed
  at somebody. 
  Americanism: Thinking the kids lost to
  honor because they do openly the things
  you would have done if you had dared.
  “WE ARE SINKING”
  “We are sinking,” said the Moncen-
  isio’s radio, giving the vessel’s position as
  about 510 miles east of Cape Henry, Va.
  A later message said she was being
  washed by heavy seas and that the crew
  was suffering from the severe cold.
  The Coast Guard service sent this wire-
  less message to the Moncenisio: “Hold on,
  aid coming!”
  The cutter Seneca was dispatched to
  the freighter from New York and the cut-
  ter Tampa set out from Boston. The
  steamer Carplaka from New Orleans to
  Le Havre, reported that she also was pro-
  ceeding to the Moncenisio.
  CUTTER SENT OUT
  The Coast Guard cutter Modoc was
  sent out from Wilmington, N. C., to the
  schooner Friendship, reported sinking off
  Gregon Inlet, about ninety miles south of
  Virginia beach. The Friendship, owned in
  Rockland, Me., commanded by Capt. G.
  K. Martin of Calais, Me., left Killkenny,
  Ga., the 2nd inst. with a cargo of lumber
  for New York.
  The freighter Manhattan Island, from
  Calamata, Greece, reported that she was
  disabled in heavy seas last night and was
  being towed into New York. Because of
  the heavy seas, she was making only
  about a mile an hour.
  An unidentified schooner, apparently
  abandoned, was reported adrift today off
  Fire Island by the Norwegian steamer
  Mexicano. The Coast Guard cutter
  Blackburn was sent to the scene.
  SHIPS LOST
  The vessels known to have been lost
  are the steamer Nika, burned to the
  water’s edge near Umatilla Reef; the
  freighter Santa Rita, lodged high on a
  rock ledge near Martha’s Vineyard; the
  motorship Coolcha, pounded by huge
  waves as she lay on an exposed reef at
  Albert Head, near Boothbay Harbor,
  Me., and the British freighter Tuscan
  Prince.
  “We are breaking up fast: we are
  going to drown,” was the last message
  from the latter vessel early today. Then
  their spark failed and she was unable to
  give her position. Repeated calls brought
  no answer and ships that went to her res-
  cue were unable to sight her.
  CREWS SAVED
  The crews of the other vessels were res-
  cued.
  Word by word, the messages often
  halted or broken, the wireless brought the
  story of the storm’s toll into eastern ports.
  First, late yesterday, came word from
  the Coast Guard cutter Snohomish, Capt.
  R. R. Waesche.
  “We are going to aid steamer Nika,
  reported lost rudder, dangerous position
  off Umatilla Reef.”
  The Snohomish was at Perth Amboy,
  eight hours run from the disabled vessel.
  A little later another message from
  Portland, said the Coolcha had been
  abandoned and her crew taken off by the
  salvage steamer Algerine. Then word
  came that a station at New Bedford had
  heard the Nika’s call for aid. The
  Snohomish reported she would reach the
  disabled craft at midnight. The regular
  routine of the air began again.
  FIRE ALARM SOUNDED
  Once more out of the East came an
  SOS faintly and a call:
  “We are on fire. Help.”
  CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
  9
  An enticing bar
  of firm, delicious ice cream, enrobed in crisp, pure
  chocolate, protected by a gleaming, sanitary foil
  wrapper. That is the magic product—the patented
  trade-marked product—Eskimo Pie.
  At picnics, parties, amusement parks, luncheons, bazaars—
  you’ll find Eskimo Pie taking first place among refreshments.
  Women are serving it as a delightful surprise dessert.
  And best of all, this popular ice cream confection is as
  good for health as it is to eat. Contains valuable health-building,
  energizing elements. Men say it’s the perfect three-o’clock “bracer.”
  Start to-day to make
  Eskimo Pie an
  everyday custom.
  Ask for it at your
  nearest drug store.
  W A R N I N G
  All good things are
  imitated. The Genuine
  is always the best.
  Refuse a substitute
  when you ask for
  Eskimo Pie.
  Hazers Burn Faces and
  Bodies of 3 M. U. Girls
  Three Miskatonic University co-eds
  are recovering from a week’s painful ill-
  ness and a narrow escape from having
  their beauty marred for life as the result
  of the introduction of college fraternity
  “rough stuff” in their initiation into the
  Delta Kappa Gamma sorority last April
  Fool’s day.
  The young women injured were Miss
  Helen Drake, 17, Miss Rose Steingester,
  17, and Miss Mildred Hellwig, 18. 
  Miss Alice Norton, president of the
  sorority, was the initiator. The hazing of
  the new members consisted of daubing
  their faces, throats and backs with a 20
  percent solution of silver nitrate. Each of
  the three girls initiated had the Greek let-
  ters “D. K. E.” painted on their fore-
  heads, and crosses were painted on their
  faces and backs. In addition moustaches
  and whiskers were painted on their faces.
  FACES SEVERELY BURNED
  The prank was apparently harmless
  until the next day, when the girls went
  out into the sunlight. Then the strong
  solution took effect, the painted places
  turning black and giving an intense
  burning pain. The three girls were forced
  to leave their university classes and go to
  the M. U. infirmary. Physicians called in
  were alarmed for several days that the
  burns would leave permanent scars and
  that the nitrate solution might have the
  effect of producing a lasting skin trouble.
  CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
  refused; whereupon the strange crew
  began to fire savagely and without warn-
  ing upon the schooner with a peculiarly
  heavy battery of brass cannon forming
  part of the yacht’s equipment.
  The Emma’s men showed fight, says
  the survivor, and though the schooner
  began to sink from shots beneath the
  waterline they managed to heave along-
  side their enemy and board her, grappling
  with the savage crew on the yacht’s deck,
  and being forced to kill them all, the
  number being slightly superior, because
  of their particularly abhorrent and des-
  perate though rather clumsy mode of
  fighting.
  Three of the Emma’s men, including
  Capt. Collins and First Mate Green, were
  killed; and the remaining eight under
  Second Mate Johansen proceeded to navi-
  gate the captured yacht, going ahead in
  their original direction to see if any rea-
  son for their ordering back had existed.
  The next day, it appears, they raised
  and landed on a small island, although
  none is known to exist in that part of the
  ocean; and six of the men somehow died
  ashore, though Johansen is queerly reti-
  cent about this part of his story and
  speaks only of their falling into a rock
  chasm.
  Later, it seems, he and one companion
  boarded the yacht and tried to manage
  her, but were beaten about by the storm
  of April 2d.
  From that time till his rescue on the
  12th, the man remembers little, and he
  does not even recall when William
  Briden, his companion, died. Briden’s
  death reveals no apparent cause, and was
  probably due to excitement or exposure.
  Cable advices from Dunedin report
  that the Alert was well known there as an
  island trader, and bore an evil reputation
  along the waterfront. It was owned by a
  curious group of half-castes whose fre-
  quent meetings and night trips to the
  woods attracted no little curiosity; and it
  had set sail in great haste just after the
  storm and earth tremors of March 1st.
  Our Auckland correspondent gives the
  Emma and her crew an excellent reputa-
  tion, and Johansen is described as a sober
  and worthy man.
  The admiralty will institute an inquiry
  on the whole matter beginning tomorrow,
  at which every effort will be made to
  induce Johansen to speak more freely
  than he has done hitherto.
  —
  
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