Postcards from the Past!

While cleaning under my porch of some very old lumber and junk I came
across remnants of two newspapers. I think when they made the porch
they just built over top the scraps of the previous mudroom. Hauling to
the landfill would have been costly back then.

The first was a Winnipeg Free Press from 1929, the front page story was
Manitoba's Lt Gov't Gen dies suddenly from acute appendicitis. Guess
that was a big illness back then. Society page chronicles who was off
to vaction in Vancouver and who had a lunch celebrating their kids
engagements. The Bay had some ads for "danities and tartlets"

The other was scraps of a Chicago Herald from 1928. The front page news
touting "Us Navy Dirigibles to be flying forts" referring to the
Navy's Dirigible project which would allow biplanes to be launched from
them!

Keep in mid back then Winnipeg was THE going concern, really THE
Chicago of the North. With both as commodities and live stock trading
centres, I could see the Chicago Herald being brought in frequently.

The papers crumbled in my hands upon inspection, dirty and rotten, I
had to throw them away. But they were very cool Postcards from the
Past!