Check out an old newspaper from Jan 4, 1959 that my Mom held onto...

[cynatnite]

~original

[Kaleva]

1. Very cool!

[CatWoman]

2. it is, isn't it?

[cynatnite]

3. I'm holding onto this. I can't believe it's survived this long. n/t

[CatWoman]

11. you need a protective storage container

[Grins]

23. It will! The one on my wall is dated April 27, 1935!

New York's "The Sun". Found it years ago lining the bottom of a chest in my aunt's attic.

Front page stories alone include:
- The baseball scores featuring a fielder named RUTH playing for the Boston BRAVES.
- A Yankee 1st basemen named GEHRIG.
- An Athletic's baseball player named FOXX.
- Germany denying it was building U-boats under orders from Reichfurher Hitler.
- Senator Huey Long taking on FDR.
- The hung jury being dismissed by the judge in the trial of Dutch Schultz.
- The race results at Jamacia. (Remember - this was the front page.)
- The temp was 81 (In April? In NYC?)
- A column titled "Anti-Lynching Bill Debate continues."

And my personal favorite:

"LaGuardia Turns in Riot Call to Thrill Congress Visitors"

It seems Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to "stage a show for the amusement and instruction of a group of visiting Congressmen" so he called in a fake riot at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets. And every officer, every foot cop, every police car, every motorcycle cop, and every mounted horse cop in lower Manhattan responded!!

Now that's a Mayor!!

[Kaleva]

6. The publishing date is less then a month after I was born.

[empedocles]

4. My father saved me the newspapers multi page coverage of the death of Babe Ruth.

In college many years later, a professor in a cultural studies class, said it was hard for anyone to imagine the impact of the Babe in his time - a unique national icon. Having seen those yellowed pages, and hearing my father and grandfather talking wondrously of having seen the Bambino play in person - I thought I may have been the exception to understanding the Ruth impact . . . somewhat.

Classic Babe joke heard across the nation. In the bottom of the Depression, Ruth made an unheard of $100,000. More than the President of the United States.

The Bambino explained, 'I had a better year than he did'.!

[rsdsharp]

27. The President made $75,000 a year at the time.

Babe made $80,000, his top salary, in 1930 and 31, and $75,000 in 1932.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml

[Boxerfan]

5. Boy trying to escape shot by cop.....

16 year old boy-in front of the police station. Took off running. Officer yelled for him to stop & then shot him with his revolver.

Tragic even today.

On the bonus-Frosty Nips@!!

[TeamPooka]

8. manacled boy too.

[Gregory Peccary]

17. At first I thought that said...

Boy trying to escape shot by GOP

[rurallib]

19. me too - then I thought 'Nixon?'

[TeamPooka]

7. and kids of color have been getting shot by cops for a long time.

[FakeNoose]

9. About the flag design - it was only in use a short time

When Hawaii became a state - I believe it was a year later? - the flag became the way we have it now.

Cool to see this! Thanks for sharing it.

[sdfernando]

12. Hawaii became a state in August 1959, so that flag was very short-lived. /NT

[SCantiGOP]

20. Interesting about those two states

We will probably never get Puerto Rico or DC admitted as states unless the Dems have such majorities they can bulldoze the Repubs on it.
When Alaska and Hawaii came in it was because the Dems assumed Alaska would stay a reliable Dem State, and the Repubs the opposite for their party and Hawaii. Half a decade later those outlooks are reversed, although Alaska is turning more purple lately.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Couple of interesting things

The flag is an obvious one: On January 3rd,1959 Alaska was formally granted statehood placing the 49th star on our Flag

And the Soviet moon shot I know nothing about.

But the cool one for me was Stanford's SRI listening to the moon signals. I assumed they were using the iconic radio telescope, 'The Dish', but I discovered it wasn't built until 1961. I'm guessing they built a mock up that worked beyond their exceptions, and immediately starting building the BIG one.

[forgotmylogin]

13. I want to hear more about these "frosty nips"...

[dchill]

14. Way cool!

Too bad about that Soviet rocket, though.

[JHB]

18. No worries. It's probably still out there.

Not still working or anything, just a metal mini-asteroid going 'round on its own path.

[Harker]

15. Only a month before Harker

started crying and wailing.

Thanks for the fun post!

[Hekate]

16. Very cool indeed. I started collecting newspapers when I was a kid. I may still have...

...the Honolulu Star-Bulletin issue proclaiming STATEHOOD.

I like seeing the entire front page, with all the other news of the moment, the good and the ugly. The advertising inside is an interesting snapshot, too. Wish there was someone I could give them to...

[underpants]

21. Frosty Nips

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. Still with the "America First" slogan. Huh.

[Blue_Tires]

24. great find!

[AllaN01Bear]

25. 2 years after i was born.

very historical indeed.

[Afromania]

26. Wow, thats in fantastic condition.

I've saved a few papers over the years and they aren't even close to that in condition. The paper and printing looks so much more crisp.

[sl8]

28. Luna 1, also known as Mechta ...

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1

Luna 1

Luna 1, also known as Mechta (Russian: Мечта [mʲɪt͡ɕˈta], lit.: Dream),[4] E-1 No.4 and First Lunar Rover ,[5] was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Earth's Moon, and the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. Intended as an impactor, Luna 1 was launched as part of the Soviet Luna programme in 1959, however due to an incorrectly timed upper stage burn during its launch, it missed the Moon, in the process becoming the first spacecraft to leave geocentric orbit.

While traveling through the outer Van Allen radiation belt, the spacecraft's scintillator made observations indicating that a small number of high-energy particles exist in the outer belt. The measurements obtained during this mission provided new data on the Earth's radiation belt and outer space. The Moon was found to have no detectable magnetic field. The first-ever direct observations and measurements of the solar wind,[5][6][7] a strong flow of ionized plasma emanating from the Sun and streaming through interplanetary space, were performed. That ionized plasma concentration was measured to be some 700 particles per cm3 at altitudes 20–25 thousand km and 300 to 400 particles per cm3 at altitudes 100–150,000 km.[8] The spacecraft also marked the first instance of radio communication at the half-million-kilometer distance.

A malfunction in the ground-based control system caused an error in the rocket's burntime, and the spacecraft missed the target and flew by the Moon at a distance of 5,900 km (more than three times the Moon's radius) at the closest point. Luna 1 then became the first man-made object to reach heliocentric orbit and was then dubbed a "new planet" and renamed Mechta (Dream).[9] Luna 1 was also referred to as the "First Cosmic Rocket", in reference to its achievement of escape velocity.

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