M Christian - newspaper scan image

[Essenchill]

Hello, can anyone help improve this photo which is taken from a scan of a newspaper article from 1975?  It's clearly a very bad digital scan of a black and white photo, of Mabel Christian wearing her Mayor's badge of office.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[loord74]

here is my try

[japeflakes]

Too difficult for me, sorry

[Essenchill]

Thank you both for spending time on this image, it's really appreciated and a really difficult scan to sort out!