1929 Gazette front pages during week of record flood (record until today, that is) June 11, 2008
Posted by John in History, Weather.Tags: Cedar Rapids (Iowa), Flooding, floods, historical newspapers
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The Evening Gazette and Republican - March 18, 1929
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The Evening Gazette and Republican - March 19, 1929
The Evening Gazette and Republican - March 20, 1929
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The Gazette has provided a PDF of today’s “EPIC SURGE” wraparound cover/front page for Newseum visitors. It should remain available there for at least the next few days.
Also, “The Gazette has printed 10,000 additional copies of today’s newspaper which are currently in circulation at major locations in town. More will be made available for purchase at a later date.”
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It’s amazing to see these front pages. Thank you for putting them up.
I notice there is not one mention of any ‘celebrity’, it seems that the local people are actually featured. Although there is an enormous amount of doom and gloom (plane crash, head on smash, etc.) you can see imagine how a newspaper today would report.
The description of how ‘Camera Men Use Plane and Boat to Get Photos’ is particularly revealling!
Somehow Paris Hilton or someone equally vacuuous in the limelight would fill half the cover page - regardless of the real story. It’s a age old trick, magicians called it sleight of hand.
They needed $2,000 for ALL the flood relief damage. I wonder how many zero’s would be needed today - possibly $500,000 or much, much more.
Right now we have a fiscal cloud that we can’t see the details of, but we can smell something isn’t right!
Is the summer bubble just a result of inexperienced staff handling the ship?
Back in 1928 (and before that in 1907) a similar thing occurred. Big dive in the banking sector, followed by big buy ups and a seeming rise.
This year is in danger of the same thing happening. Don’t let the Olympics distract you, the price of oil will rise before the year end. This is despite political veribage from the politicians and quangos that make up the central banks.
It would be interesting to see covers from after the 1929 stock market crash - just seven short months away from these papers.