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April 27, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Europe Is Facing Famine" |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "New Battleship Joins French Fleet" |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Bacon Board Has Problem In Surplus" |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Washington C.H. Record, Washington C.H., Ohio. |
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Note the photo at top right: "Chloe Davis Reunited With Dad" |
(Chloe Davis, who had been accused of killing her family with a hammer, determined to be innocent, was finally reunited with her father. It was determined that her mother, Lolita, had killed her three siblings and herself. Even though Chloe was innocent, several despicable headline writers still found the need to label this 11 year-old girl "Murder Child" as in the example linked below.) |
Also note the report in column 1: "Bid To Negros Made By Lewis To Gain Power" |
(Maybe one of the earliest examples of a democrat trying to bring Blacks into the party as a voting bloc. In this case, Mr. Lewis, president of the C.I.O union, known to be associated with Soviet communists, put out a feeler to the National Negro Congress to join with them to increase political power.) |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at bottom: "Gypsy, House Cat, Turns Up With Litter Of Kittens; Smell And Look Like Skunks But Genetics Say No" |
(As the late great Paul Harvey would say, Here is a Strange.) |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York. |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Das faschistische Italien weiß, was es will! |
(Fascist Italy Knows What It Wants!) |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Erster Bericht über deutsch-englische Kampfhandlungen auf norwegischen Boden. |
(First report on German-English combat on Norwegian soil.) |
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April 27, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Unaufhaltsamer Vormarsch in Norwegen. |
(Unstoppable advance in Norway.) |
2. Wieder Bomben auf britische Schiffe - Elf feindliche Flugzeuge bei Andalsnes vernichtet. |
(British ships bombed again - eleven enemy aircraft destroyed near Åndalsnes.) |
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Page published April 27, 2021 |
