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"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash.

Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events. A 1916 silent film adaptation was made, but may be lost.

馃摉 Read the #publicdomain novel 鉃★笍 https://archive.org/details/blackfriday00ishaiala

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Cover of the 1904 novel Black Friday by Frederic S. Isham. The olive-green cover shows the title in large gold letters at the top. Beneath it are three tall black pedestals, each supporting a domed stock ticker machine with visible gears. Long white ticker tape streams down from each machine into woven baskets. The author鈥檚 name appears in black lettering at the bottom.
Cover of the 1904 novel Black Friday by Frederic S. Isham. The olive-green cover shows the title in large gold letters at the top. Beneath it are three tall black pedestals, each supporting a domed stock ticker machine with visible gears. Long white ticker tape streams down from each machine into woven baskets. The author鈥檚 name appears in black lettering at the bottom.
Cover of the 1904 novel Black Friday by Frederic S. Isham. The olive-green cover shows the title in large gold letters at the top. Beneath it are three tall black pedestals, each supporting a domed stock ticker machine with visible gears. Long white ticker tape streams down from each machine into woven baskets. The author鈥檚 name appears in black lettering at the bottom.
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