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February 15, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "2 More U-boats Sunk" |
(The report is true, U-33 had been sunk by warships, which was known, but U-54 had been sunk by a mine, which was not known at that time.) |
February 15, 1940: For all us animal lovers a report from inside the Press and Journal. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 8: "417 Flu Deaths" |
February 15, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report at center: "Bitter Northeaster Heads Out To Sea After Burying Eastern U.S. Under Heavy Snow; 20 Lives Lost" |
February 15, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report at top left: "Japan Said At Limit China Invasion" |
Also note the report at top center: "Heavy Blizzard Leaves Trail of 36 Dead In East Coast's Worst Storm Since 1938." |
(After watching the hysterical news coverage of the snow storm which hit the northeastern U.S.A. on Feb. 1-2, 2021 and the storm we are having today, I thought this report was a good reminder that the northeast U.S. had in fact been hit by a blizzards before the 21st century. This blizzard was covered in most of the newspapers of the time, including the Canadian and German papers. I find the headline in this particular version of the story to be kind of comical, as it says "worst storm since 1938," which makes it the worst storm in a whole two years.) |
February 15, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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February 15, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. 20 Jahre polnische Ausbeutungspolitik. |
(20 Years of Polish political exploitation.) |
2. Der Leidensweg des deutschen Volkstums in Polen. |
(The ordeal of German people in Poland.) |
February 15, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Kaltekatastrophe auch in Amerika. |
(Catastrophic cold in America.) |
2. Der Leidensweg des deutschen Volkstums in Polen. |
(The ordeal of German people in Poland.) |
3. An einen Tage 58 000 BRT |
(58,000 BRT sunk in one day.) |
Page published February 15, 2021 |