Posted on 07/20/2016 11:13:47 AM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from Monday July 20, 1896 (digitized). A few headlines from today's paper...
WANT THEIR OWN TICKET: Populists Opposed to Bryan| MCKINLEY GOES TO CLEVELAND: He will Take Part in the Centennial Celebrations There| DUG UP A POT OF GOLD: A Staten Island Farmer Stumbles on a Buried Fortune| VENEZUELA TO MAKE REPLY: Her Answer to the British Case Expected Today| FREE SILVER AND CHEAP WHISKEY: Magistrate Kudlich Recommends the Gold Cure to a White Metal Shouter
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“FREE SILVER AND CHEAP WHISKEY”
I want the America back that I grew up in! ;)
LOL! I was sure that headline would hook at least a few FReepers.
Dang right! Oh, and something should be done about the price of ammo...
:)
I probably spent hundreds of hours reading old local newspapers on microfilm at the library, several years back. Headlines, editorials, advertisements, social events, everything. A lot to digest. Gave me a really strong grasp of our nation’s cultural history, spanning several generations.
The only negative in such an endeavor is that you start to fully comprehend how far we’ve devolved as a society and as a nation. The juxtaposition can be quite depressingly jaw-dropping in so many ways.
This can’t be right. Where are all the headlines of the out of control murder rate because of that pesky 2nd amendment. I mean, didn’t everyone have a gun back then? Weren’t children taught to shoot at an early age? We know guns are so evil because the government (Obama) tells us so and therefore surely guns have been killing innocent people for decades.
Somebody got killed at a Bryan rally yesterday. But I think the murder weapon was a knife.
My hope is that the news, 120 years from now, reads more like, “Another beautiful day in eternite, where evil has been vanquished and Death, the final enemy, has been laid to rest. That’s the news for today.”
We used to have an old house built around 1909. The walls of the attic were plastered with old St Louis newspapers to keep the wind out. It was fun to go up into the attic with a flashlight and read the old adds.
Classified adds of several pages of psychics and fortune tellers, with a few other items.
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