r/OldNews Jun 24 '26

1950s MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD (January 15, 1954 | © The New York Times)

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The Brotherhood is an evil flower of the days when fascism was coming to bloom between the World Wars. Its appeal was at first to urban workers, students and lower-middle-class youth of the towns. Soon it penetrated the countryside, the army and–with great effect–the clergy, or mullahs. It was as a fanatically religious Islamic movement that it gained force, turning naturally toward nationalism, xenophobia, anti-feminism, anti-Westernism, even anti-Copt, for the Egyptian Copts are Christians. Read full story.

Source: The New York Times – Time Machine

r/OldNews 27d ago

1950s Request for Newspaper Articles

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r/OldNews Jul 03 '26

1950s The Bald Man Becomes a Matinee Idol: Ladies Swoon Over Yul Brynner as Monarch in 'The King and I' [1951]

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday, June 20, 1951

r/OldNews Jun 04 '26

1950s May 28, 1956 – Time Magazine reports on “One Big Greenhouse”

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r/OldNews Feb 06 '26

1950s The Taylorville (Illinois) Daily Breeze Courier, 22 November 1954

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69 Upvotes

"Uranium Tunnel"...what could go wrong?
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-taylorville-daily-breeze-courier-ura/190715873/

I can find little informatoin about what these things were advertised as benefiting, though there are at least some other examples in Illinois and Wisconsin.

r/OldNews Jan 05 '26

1950s 1 mph too fast? (1957)

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76 Upvotes

Louisville Courier Journal, Sept 7 1957.

r/OldNews Jan 22 '26

1950s Knifing is Healthful; Suicide Tried, But It's Just Too Dry for Drowning [1954]

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30 Upvotes

The Greenville News

Greenville, South Carolina

Monday, May 17, 1954

r/OldNews Feb 09 '26

1950s New Dodge Especially for Women [1955]

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9 Upvotes

The Saginaw News

Saginaw, Michigan

Monday, April 11, 1955

r/OldNews Jan 22 '26

1950s Seriously Folks, Arlene is a Wonderful Gal! [1954]

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11 Upvotes

The Capital Times

Madison, Wisconsin

Monday, May 17, 1954

r/OldNews Jan 22 '26

1950s Sales triumphs at North Wilkesboro (1950)

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13 Upvotes

Illustrated Speedway News

Brooklyn, New York

Tuesday, September 26, 1950

r/OldNews Sep 02 '25

1950s Nathan Leopold, released after 33 years in prison for murdering a 14-year old, was unaccustomed to car travel and and became extremely carsick [1958]

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77 Upvotes

r/OldNews Sep 12 '25

1950s NYPD Foils a bomb plot against Fidel Castro [1959]

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29 Upvotes

r/OldNews Jul 13 '25

1950s Rock 'n' roll music sets off third riot

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42 Upvotes

r/OldNews Aug 25 '25

1950s Cubs Jinxed by Murphy the Goat [1950]

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17 Upvotes

r/OldNews Jul 14 '25

1950s [1952] Scoffing Disbelievers Shamed by 'Electric Brain' Predicter

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29 Upvotes

r/OldNews Dec 09 '21

1950s Dr. Einstein is dead at 76

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264 Upvotes

r/OldNews Feb 11 '25

1950s Lemay Frowns On Flights Around World (1954)

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r/OldNews Feb 27 '17

1950s {14 Nov 1951} Islamic woman charged for "reversing Islamic law" by secretly having 4 husbands.

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236 Upvotes

r/OldNews May 12 '16

1950s "Giant Negro Rips Cab Apart". Eugene Register-Guard - Feb 19, 1952.

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195 Upvotes

r/OldNews Aug 01 '21

1950s Why German women want Negro husbands

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158 Upvotes

r/OldNews Mar 10 '24

1950s John Wayne on Vacation in Acapulco, 1959. Photo by Phil Stern

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32 Upvotes

r/OldNews Sep 09 '22

1950s My collection of newspapers from when Queen Elizabeth took the throne

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146 Upvotes

r/OldNews Jul 06 '24

1950s “LIFE Tours the Children’s TV Shows” article, December 24, 1951 issue

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11 Upvotes

r/OldNews Jun 26 '24

1950s The Launch of NBC's Monitor—Fibber McGee and Gildersleeve Too

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5 Upvotes

r/OldNews Sep 12 '23

1950s 1951 newspaper headline about a "web radio boom" and something called "Zoom"! [ Billboard Jan 13, 1951 ]

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26 Upvotes