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Originally Posted by nolemmings
Nice catch. I know what you mean when you say the papers are fragile. I have a few and am reluctant to look at them very often, especially since the digital versions can be found if you need to read content. For those who don't know, the paper (and many from the era) was huge by modern standards, and alot was stuffed into those eight pages.
More to your post, the company gave out sample copies for years upon request, so yours is not a pre-production effort. I do not recall seeing one with the "Sample Copy" designation, but I am far from an expert or even staunch collector of periodicals, so take that for what it's worth.
Here you can see that TSN offered sample copies back in 1916:
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Thanks Todd, I learned something already as I didn't know they offered free samples.
I would find it odd that Mr. Feller would request a free sample, but he collected a lot of newspaper clippings that he kept. Maybe someone gave it to him or he requested it - it's all conjecture at this point.
I personally have never seen a SAMPLE COPY issue and thought this one particularly was really out of the ordinary.