For some strange and unknown reason I have been searching for old news online. Old news can be interesting sometimes, especially if one knows who the tidbits of information concern. I googled my grandfather's name and came up with old town newspapers, pages that read something like a gossip column or Facebook newsfeed.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Plotzker
and two children of Rochester
were Sunday guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Plotzker.
Mrs. Emil Plotzker is able to
be out again after having been confined to her home with the grip.
-The Herald Mail, Fairport, NY
Thursday February 9, 1933
My father was just a baby...
And then this one. It's even older.
Penfield, March 26- Mr. and
Mrs. Arndt attended the confirming of their grandson, Arthur Plotzker in Rochester Sunday.
Monroe County
Mail, Thursday, March 28,
1918
(I'm guessing this old photo of my grandpa, a late addition to this post, is either a graduation of some kind or that confirmation the newspaper mentioned.)
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Fascinating that the papers would publish that someone went to their parents' place for dinner! Were they of the "upper crust" so to speak?
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No, as far as I know. They were just a regular family, but the old country newspapers appear to be full of little bits of useless information. Maybe that's how people in small towns entertained themselves. Then again, maybe the folks had to submit their information in order to have it published. I really don't have a clue as to why these little bits are there, but I do find it amusing all these years later. :)
DeleteI've decided it is only the uniqueness of the names that makes it possible to fin them online. Not so simple with other ancestors.
DeleteAh, a historian in the making.
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I've been playing at this game for a long time. Once in a very great while I actually happen upon something "new" (which is actually old). So far I haven't let it consume me. :)
DeleteI love delving back into family history. It's interesting what makes news now compared to way back when.
ReplyDeleteI think I like the "OLD" news better!
Me too. Researching family history can be rather fun sometimes.
DeleteWhen I first moved to Arkansas in the early eighties, there were columns in the newspaper from each community in the area with such items as so and so visited for supper. So and sos daughter is visiting them etc.
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One of our small town papers used to have a column from the local barber. He shared bits of news like this. Good place to catch up on the local gossip, I guess.
DeleteFascinating post for O for ABC ^_^ ~ love the vintage photo.
ReplyDeleteThanks. That is my dad when he was a baby. The dinner must have been only a few months later. :)
DeleteCool...
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Linda :o)
I think 'old' stuff is interesting, too. The rhetoric is so foreign sounding sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI went with "Old" today too! Old photos in my case. Our small town newspaper read like Facebook does now when I was a kid in the 1960s! It was even more gossipy and detailed from 1900-1959.
ReplyDeleteNow I just get all the updates of neighborhood import at the grocery store !
I love newspapers like this, just 10 years ago in my SMALL hometown, the newspaper stated we came to see my Mom for a week visit. I really love old clipings--one of my real interests.
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A family heirloom.
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