Random Ad - Rowntree's Sweets (WWII)

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World War 2 Rowntree's sweets advert showing the near plain wrapping that shortages of paper and ink made necessary. Kit-Kat, Fruit Pastilles and Gums are still familiar today. I don't know if you can still get Beech Nut chewing gum - it was my gum of choice as a lad.

Random Cutting - US Plane Crash (1929)

18th March 1929

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The Colonial Western Airways plane, a Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor had just taken off from Newark on a sightseeing trip around New York with 13 passengers, a pilot and a friend of the pilot (also in the cockpit), when it failed to gain height and crashed onto railway sidings. The sightseers were all killed instantly, the friend died the next day and the pilot survived.

Fuchs and Hilary at the South Pole (1958)

Daily Express dated Wednesday January 22nd 1958

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New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary is, of course, most remembered for conquering Everest in 1953, but he was also the first man to have accomplished the 'big three' - stand at the South Pole , the North Pole and the top of Everest. In 1958 he led the New Zealand part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition overland to the South Pole, where he is pictured meeting geologist and explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs, the overall leader of the Expedition, which as the name implies crossed Antarctica from coast to coast via the South Pole, a distance of 2,158 miles.

Random Ad - Barges (1920's)

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"Barges! Get your loverly barges here! Big ones, small ones, single-screw or double! All low milage and one careful lady owner! How about a tug, darling? Now then Mrs I'm not being surgestive even if one of 'em is called 'Saucy'."

Nice little drawings.

Random Cutting - New York World's Fair bombing (1940)

5th July 1940

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The New York World's Fair ran from April to August in both 1939 and 1940. By the second season World War II had started and some exhibitors dropped out. On July 4th 1940 an unexploded time-bomb was found in the British Pavillion and taken outisde by a security man. Two officers of the NYPD Bomb squad arrived and tried to defuse it, the bomb exploded killing them and injuring by-standers. A police manhunt failed to find who had planted the bomb and the case remains open and unsolved..

We Take Bayeux (1944)

San Francisco Chronicle dated Thursday June 8th 1944

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An American perspective on the situation 24 - 36 hours after the Allies' D-Day Normandy landings on June 6th 1944. 

Also see this post.

Random Ad - Film Ads (1964)

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'The Scarlet Blade' was made by Hammer who didn't just do Horror and the young Oliver Reed is there swashing his buckle. 'The Son of Captain Blood' starred Sean Flynn the son of Erroll Flynn who made 'Captain Blood' in 1935. Someone must have thought long and hard about that title.