The headline on a paper I found in the walls of my 1916 house.

[Buddyblazon]

I just thought it was kind of cool.

All I can say to that headline:

Same Shit...Different Day.


On edit:

The date on the paper is August 12, 1948.

[orwell]

1. Dixiecrats...

...Teapublicans.

Nice to know we're still fighting the Civil War...

Pretty funny. Thanks.

[Buddyblazon]

3. I thought of DU the second I saw the headline.

[Buddyblazon]

2. Along with that paper...

there were dozens and dozens of other dates. One had a whole article on Red Rocks Amphitheater...a place I occasionally stage manage...and my Grandfather helped build as a part of the CCC.

There were also several comic books. None were in good shape. Which is too bad...because it would help on the replacement of the old dilapidated bathroom. Tore it down to studs...that's when I found those.

I'm currently in a house with no toilet or shower :(

Old bathroom was so bad and literally falling apart (had to put plastic up over the tile in the bathtub because half it collapsed into the bathtub.

Note to self...don't do what the last guy did and attach tile to plaster with wall paper on it. WTF?!

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. Hey - aren't you the guy who explained to us about stage setup and safety

after that stage collapsed this summer? One of the most informative posts on DU.

I hear ya on the renovation. My house is renovated from an old 2 story brick building built back during the civil war. Until it was renovated into a home, it was used for storage and a garage. Fortunately, I didn't have plaster to deal with. The coats and coats and coats of lead paint on 150 year old bricks was my headache.

[Buddyblazon]

13. That was me, Ruby.

Glad you remembered.

Love me some old houses too.

[frazzled]

4. Very cool

That paper is perfectly preserved, too. Yes, we're still fighting the same old battles in the nation. And we're fighting the same old battles here at DU--any papers talking about the Stalin-Trotsky rifts among the American left?

[Buddyblazon]

5. I sat all the ones in decent condition aside for later.

But as of right now...I have a house with no shower or bath...and a wife who is impatiently staying at her parents house. No time to sit and read papers right now.

[enlightenment]

8. Get them into a closed box, immediately.

Preferably individually encased in archival quality folders. Exposure to light and the various effluvia in the air will start eating the paper very quickly.

Check with the Denver Public Library (I think the downtown one still has the main archive) for tips.

Great find - do preserve them!

[Bandit]

6. Petticoat Rebellion to Grow......

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[alfredo]

15. I couldn't find any reference to that during the 1940's.

It must have been a regional and/or short lived effort.

[Buddyblazon]

18. Me neither.

eom

[alfredo]

21. There was a 19th century woman Anna Parnell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Catherine_Parnell

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Well, since you asked:

Wiki comes to the rescue:

The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States in 1948.
The party held far-right views on racial issues with its support of white supremacism.
It held left-wing views on the economy, such as supporting the economic policies of the New Deal of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It originated as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party in 1948, determined to protect what they portrayed as the southern way of life beset by an oppressive federal government,
and supporters assumed control of the state Democratic parties in part or in full in several Southern states.
The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention. Members were called Dixiecrats. (The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat.)

The party did not run local or state candidates and after the 1948 election as its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party. The Dixiecrats had little short-run impact on politics. However, they did have a long-term impact. The Dixiecrats began the weakening of the "Solid South" (the Democratic Party's total control of presidential elections in the South).
End.


"Local control"/"states rights" has long been a consistent message in the South, George Wallace rode that message for a long political career.

[Buddyblazon]

26. We were talking about the Petticoat Rebellion.

;)

[Luminous Animal]

33. Petticoat Rebellions have been waged off & on for a long long time. The target is high food prices.

We could do with another now.

[alfredo]

34. I fight food prices by not buying food-like products in the center aisles.

[tblue]

7. We're still fighting a Cold Civil War.

Have not changed much.

[InvisibleTouch]

10. Neat find!

Wonder why papers and comic books were stuffed into your wall. Insulation, perhaps?

Good luck with the repairs!

[Buddyblazon]

12. Yes...insulation.

As lathe and plaster has come down, I have found numerous papers.

The ones at the bottom of the wall have been opened and crumpled. But whoever it was got lazy as they moved up the wall because eventually they are crumpled less and less going up the ten foot walls...and the ones at the top of the pile are always just folded over. Hence why that one is in such good shape...it was found at the top of the wall.

[alfredo]

11. Q-What is a Dixiecrat? A- the precursor of the modern GOP.

The only big difference is the support for New Deal reforms. The modern GOP still hates FDR, and his support for working people, with a white hot hatred.

So just like what they did with the Bible, they have done with the Dixiecrat platform: accepted what advances their bigotry, and rejected/ignored the rest.

[Buddyblazon]

14. Yep...and something every left winger should know.

Especially when dumb right wingers trot out, "Democrats are the party of the KKK.".

The southern democrats were. That's why they left the party. Because of the push for Civil Rights. Now they're all Republicans.

[alfredo]

16. That's what I do when they trot out that smear. One didn't leave,

but he rejected his racist past and that is what the Reps harp on.

[former9thward]

30. It is a disgrace that Byrd was allowed in the leadership of the Senate.

He was using the 'n' word in interviews as recently as 2001. He voted against both black nominees to the Supreme Court, Thurgood and Thomas, not based on ideology but skin color. http://articles.cnn.com/2001-03-04/politics/byrd.slur_1_byrd-race-relations-phrase-dates?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

[EC]

17. They're todays Blue Dogs

is how I see them.

[alfredo]

19. Not near as bad

[Buddyblazon]

20. Actually I believe the vast majority left the party...

though.

[Buddyblazon]

22. Also...

There was a celebrity mini-mag in the wall as well. Looking at it right now. STARS OVERNIGHT is the name of the mag. It has three pictures on the front. Van Johnson...Lauren Bacall...Gregory Peck. It states under their pictures, "Their Life Stories with Intimate Pictures". It cost a whole whopping $.25.

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. what a great find.

[Gin]

25. interesting finds....history repeats itself...only the names have changed.

an interesting find I have is....my daughter moved to Naperville,
bought a house, and in the attic they found a Life magazine dated same day I was born...exact year month and day....it sold for 10 cents..

I have it...keeping it in a dark place...unfortunately..it was a boring issue..but...a VERY odd coincidence.

[kaiden]

27. Are you renovating in Northwest Denver?

If so, we lived there about 10 years and had the same headaches renovating our house. Great location, though.

[Buddyblazon]

29. Yes...

we are right next to old Stapleton. Absolutely love this neighborhood. Neighbors are literally the best I've ever had.

I wish it was bigger. It would be tough for the wife and I to raise a family here. But the market doesn't look like it's coming back anytime soon...so on with the renovations we go.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. I found an interesting paper, the Texas Methodist.

It referred to "the recent unpleasantness at Whitechapel".

I'm racking my brain, thinking "Whitechapel, Whitechapel, what is this?"

Finally I realized that was the hood in London where Jack the Ripper was killing prostitutes.

1888, I believe.

My house was built in 1883, I think. At least, the oldest deed I have is that year. I was told that they platted the town from my house. That is possible because the deed has 500 acres in it.

[Supply Side Jesus]

32. very cool!

[RZM]

31. Interesting that they spelled it 'drouth'

I've never seen that spelling before.