Anarchist Laurence Labadie’s Childhood Newspaper The Whippo-Wil 1912 All Four Issues

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Labadie, Laurence C., The Whippo-Wil. Detroit, Michigan: The Labadie Shop, 74 Buchanan Street, 1912. Four complete issues of a child publisher’s monthly newspaper, apparently all published.

Vol. I, No.1 March 1912

Vol. I, No. 2 April 1912

Vol. I, No. 3 May 1912

Vol. I, No. 4 August 1912

Description

Labadie, Laurence C., The Whippo-Wil. Detroit, Michigan: The Labadie Shop, 74 Buchanan Street, 1912. Four complete issues of a child publisher’s monthly newspaper, apparently all published.

Vol. I, No.1 March 1912

Vol. I, No. 2 April 1912

Vol. I, No. 3 May 1912

Vol. I, No. 4 August 1912

One sheet 7 ¼ in x 10 ¾ in, folded once, four pages. Numbers 1 and 2 have undergone repairs to the fold-separations, not entirely successful, as the mulberry paper is detaching from the surface of the newspaper. Numbers 3 and 4 are fine, age and fragility of the paper noted.

Printed by Joseph Labadie at the Labadie Shop located at 74 Buchanan Street, a “nonprofessional” location, so described as where “Printers, Binders and Publishers of the Labadie Booklets” worked.

Laurence C. Labadie (1896? – 1965) was the son of the anarchist Joseph Labadie, and followed in his father’s footsteps when he began this newspaper at age 13 with two of his friends, Vernon Gnau and John Galvin, both also 13 years old. Among the advertisements on the back of Issue 1 is one for Laura E. Labadie, doing china painting at 74 Buchanan Street, Detroit.

Self-styled in adulthood, as an individual anarchist, Laurence Labadie worked in the automotive industry, proclaiming only “equality of opportunity.”

University of Michigan, Special Collections has only the same four copies offered here. The Library of Michigan has two copies of No.4. No other issues or copies are recorded at WorldCat.

Front and back of unfolded sheet of Issue 1 of “The Whippo-Wil.”

Ya’akov David Kamson Hatunah ba-ya’ar Illustrated by Elsa Wenns Viëtor Adolf Holst Hochzeit im Walde in Hebrew

Mildred Loomis Ralph Borsodi – The Interpreter – 1945 – 1954

AMERICAN ANARCHISM Badcock SLAVES TO DUTY January 29, 1894

ANARCHISM Malatesta | NUESTRO PROGRAMA

MONTSENY pseudonym of Federico Urales SOCIOLOGIA ANARQUISTA 1896

Turn-Verein Vorwaerts March 9 1913 East 84th Street Manhattan

Haymarket Massacre Robert Reitzel May 4 1886

Additional information

Author

Labadie, Laurence C

Title

The Whippo-Wil