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Trash Can Archeology

Off To The Library

So far the only major clues I had were those provided by the Space probe and Mexico articles. I went with this information to the library to look at microfilm copies of papers that might provide further clues. The mexico article mentioned December 31st and the moon probe was launched on January 2nd so I decided to have a look at both dates. The Dec. 31 paper held no clues as did the January 1st. On the 2nd, there was mention of the situation in which Mexican fishing boats were attacked by Guatemalan strike planes. On the third there was mention of the first Russian probe, and every day thereafter contained massive articles on the description of the probe, it's flight plan and trajectory as well as loads of speculation by American scientists, government officials and Defense personnel regarding the intentions of the Russians. I found it interesting that at that point it want clear yet whether the Russians wanted to reach the moon, go past the moon, orbit the moon or crash into it. (Click here to see one such article)

Interesting as the wealth of articles was, none looked remotely like the one I held in my box. More over, there was no mention of the situation in Mexico either. I looked past the 3rd of January, and the following week but still nothing. I finally stopped looking in the vicinity of the first probe around the 17th of January.

The next two probes, Lunik II and III, were launched within 30 days of each other on September 12 and October 4, 1959. I once again started looking at the dates starting this time on the 11th of September. At this point the Mexico-Guatemala incident was more then a half year in the past and I little expected to find anything regarding that in the papers of September. I was wrong, however, and I found this article in the Wednesday, September 16, 1959 edition.

Microfilm Copy
Clearly printed in the article on the right it is stated that negotiations were broken on the 23rd of January. My spirits were lifted. At this time, I'd spent many hours at the library with little success in obtaining the exact date of publucation of the paper in the box but now I felt I was much closer. I went back to the January reel and started, once again, to scan for news on and around Janyary 23rd. Soon enough I found it. Every single one of the pieces of paper had a nice little copy on the 25th of January 1959. I was actually surprised to fing that the Russian Probe article and the Mexico articles were both printed on the same page. I also found all the ads and the complete stories to some smaller chunks of paper with barely a complete sentence in them.

Microfilm Copy

 

Other articles or partial pictures

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Microfilm Copy

This article was particularly interesting. It was about the construction of the U.S. Highway system during the Eisenhower administration (1953-61), specifically the interchange at NW 36th St. and 7th Av. in Miami. It is construction of these super-highways that split neighborhoods apart and allowed for the effective separation of the middle class, who commute their jobs downtown from their homes in the suburbs and back, from the lower classes who live and work in the inner cities. This added mobility allowed for further and further expansion of metropolitan cities leaving the poor behind and allowing those better off to seek more secluded lives away from the poor neighborhoods that they no longer had to go through to get to work. This is the largest of about 9 pieces that I put together to make the second largest section of paper from the bits I recovered.


Coffee ad- Original was destroyed

Only outlined portion was available from the original


Only outlined portion was available from the original

 

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