#newspaper archives

[braccobelle]

— lorraine bracco, c. 1992

[clarklovescarole]

1942 articles

January 1942: Last Bit of Normal Life

January 1942: Bond Drive Trip Announced

Jan. 13, 1942: Blonde Carole Lombard Travels To Help USA

Jan. 15, 1942: Movie Star Turns To Selling Bonds

Jan. 16, 1942: Carole Lombard Proves Bond Selling Star Too

Jan. 16, 1942: Carole Turns Tea Into Bond Sales Extravaganza

Jan. 16, 1942: Indianapolis News Covers 'Intense' Day

Jan. 16, 1942: Carole Called Victory Girl

Jan. 17, 1942: Carole Lombard In Lost Airliner

Jan. 17, 1942: Carole Lombard, 21 Others, Believed Dead in Plane Crash

Jan. 17, 1942: Gable Gives Up All Hope

Jan. 17, 1942: Gable Paces Floor In Anguish

Jan. 17, 1942: Indiana Saddened By Film Star’s Death After Aiding In Huge Defense Bond Rally

Jan. 17, 1942: Actress Took Plane Despite Mother's Plea

Jan. 18, 1942: Hollywood Shocked By Carole Lombard’s Sudden Death In Plane

January 1942: Leaving Las Vegas

January 1942: Carole Laid To Rest

February-June 1942: Clark After Carole

[sparklebunny57]

JM scrapbook part 4 (and final), don't know why I am missing some front pages! And I think I just kept the first article for the headline 🤣 Anyway yeah enjoy the Jean Kierans articles if you can read any of it, it's all kind of hilarious the way it's all written, it all looks quite dated now! And I have no clue what the 'Today' newspaper was!

@yonderghostshistories @majorism

[stargazostli]

I wish more archives were free

EVERYTHING IS BEHIND A SUBSCRIPTION NOW

I'm researching my family and learned that I have a relative who was in a newspaper. I know the date, the page, the paper, everything. But every single archive I found requires a subscription.

If anyone wants to help its the Belfast News-letter 22 May 1893 page 4, please, I'm so curious about what it's about.

update: this post has been in my drafts for ages and I don't think I ever found the article. I did find a different news article about my family about them in the 40s though so thats pretty cool

[itsoliverohanlon]

US newspaper cartoon from 25 July 1925 about traffic on the roads

Source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1925-07-25/ed-1/seq-1/ #ChronAm

[crustybellbottoms]

give me more PERIODICALS!!!

[lanfykins]

are there any drawings of him like in papers. i mean like drawings that were made at that time ?

Not that are well known or easily found. Most of the newspaper-type drawings of Burr I’ve seen date from later, and are clearly drawn by people who’d never seen him.

The thing is, printing pictures was a rather more involved job than printing text. Text was printed using movable type; you just assembled all your letters and then off you went. But to include a picture you would have to specially etch or engrave a plate of copper or zinc with the image you wanted to print. Someone had to hand-draw the lines into the metal, or hand-draw wax onto the metal for acid to etch away; it was time-consuming and expensive, so kind of kept for special occasions. Most of the papers of the time that I’ve trawled through for one reason or another had no illustrations at all.

(It’s worth remembering that papers of the time were *not* like papers of today. They were only a few pages long, and the news in them might be quite old; one of the Virginia papers was printing the proceedings of the Chase impeachment trial, verbatim, a month after it had ended. And believe me that thing was not a thrilling read.)

[clarklovescarole]

January 18, 1942: Hollywood Shocked By Carole Lombard’s Sudden Death In Plane

By The Associated Press

The film capital, shocked and saddened by the plane crash death of Carole Lombard, was quick today to pay tribute to the actress it  counted as one of its favorite daughters.

Elsewhere, too, were heard expressions of sorrow and esteem.

From Secretary Morgenthau came the simple eulogy that she died in service to her country.

Mr. Morgenthau sent this telegram to her husband, Clark Gable:

“My deepest sympathy goes to you today. Your wife died in the service of our country. Her brilliant work for the Treasury this week in selling defense bonds in Indianapolis will be long remembered and honored by us all.”

Here studio magnates and laborers on the big stages joined with the movie-going public in voicing genuine grief. Miss Lombard’s roll of friends was as diversified as her acting ability.

One of her closest friends was Madeline Fields, or “Fieldsie,” who was Carole’s secretary and intimate friend for years before becoming Mrs. Walter Lang, the wife of a director. She was reported prostrated with grief.

Actors Are Shocked

“There is nothing one can say – it is too terrible,” commented Robert Taylor. 

“The hand  of every actor in Hollywood is extended to Clark Gable, their associate and friend,” said Edward Arnold, president of the Screen Actors Guild. “It is doubly tragic as Miss Lombard was returning from important patriotic duty in connection with national defense.”

Spencer Tracy added, “So little can be put into words when a tragedy of this kind of strikes.”

A somber-faced Walter Pidgeon agreed and said, “I am too shocked to express anything but the deepest grief.”

Ginger Rogers, whose dressing room adjoined Miss Lombard’s at RKO Studio, said, “The world has lost a star who brought joy to millions, and her associates have lost a wonderful friend.”

Can Never Be Replaced

Harold Lloyd, who had known Miss Lombard for many years, observed, “Like all great personalities in pictures who have passed on, she can never be replaced.” Another old-time friend, Lupe Velez, cried, “It’s too awful. The film world will never forget her.”

Gloom was cast over Columbia Studios, where the star was to have started work February 1 on a comedy with Melvyn Douglas.

At Palm Springs, William Powell, Miss Lombard’s former husband, was “so unbelievably shocked that I don’t know what to say.”

“My wife and I have been up all night waiting for reports,” Mr. Powell said. “Our deepest sympathy goes to Clark Gable and Carole’s two brothers.”

Miss Lombard and Mr. Powell were married in 1931 after playing together in films. She divorced him two years later in Reno.

Indiana Grieves

“No daughter of any state has made a more glorious contribution to her nation,” was the message of condolence telegraphed to Clark Gable by Gov. Henry F. Schricker, as an expression of Indiana’s grief over the death of the Hoosier-born film star.

The governor, who two nights ago shared the platform with Miss Lombard at a statewide defense bond rally in Indianapolis, said when told of the plane crash: “She came out here to do her duty. I am profoundly distressed about it.”

In his message to Miss Lombard’s husband, Gov. Schricker said: “I am profoundly shocked and grieved to hear of the airplane tragedy. Her return to Indiana not only endeared her to the people here, but her gracious presence at the first great national defense bond rally struck a blow for victory that will never be forgotten. No daughter of any state has made a more glorious contribution to her nation. Such unselfishness and heroic service will live forever in the hearts of our people.”

… At New York, Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Of America, said, “Carole Lombard has given her life in the service of America. She is a first-line casualty of the war.”

Sends Wire To Gable

Mr. Hays disclosed he had talked with Miss Lombard just before she left for the airport at Indianapolis, where she had opened a defense nond sales campaign, which netted more than $2 million the first day – four times the quota set.

In a telegram Thursday to Mr. Gable, Mr. Hays said he told the film star’s husband, “Carole was perfect. She was gay and radiant, but tears came to her eyes as she voiced her appreciation of the reception she had received from the people of her home state.

“Miss Lombard wanted to serve and help her nation in this hour of its greatest crisis,” Mr. Hays said. “She gave her life for the cause. I am shocked and grieved and saddened.”