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Read more about the article This week in old newspapers: February 16 to 22.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, creator of "The New Deal" and subject of an assassination attempt in 1933.

This week in old newspapers: February 16 to 22.

A round-up of news and other items plucked from the Trove website. Click the red headings to visit the stories on Trove. *************************************************************************************************************** February 16, 1933: The Newcastle Sun A would-be assassin fired five shots at US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami, Florida. Guiseppe Zangara The bullets missed the President-elect but wounded one of his bodyguards and also the Mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak. Roosevelt was the architect of the "New Deal" which aimed to tackle the Great Depression in a variety of ways, including restoring power to trade unions, putting spending power back in…

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Read more about the article Plane wreck a monument to a war hero and an ill-starred venture

Plane wreck a monument to a war hero and an ill-starred venture

Stand by your glasses steady, for each man who takes off and flies. Here’s to the dead already; three cheers for the next man who dies. Toast proposed by British World War 2 aircrew following the death of a comrade. Doug Swain DFC at Camden in about 1948. Photo by John Laming. In the foothills of the Barrington Tops, in NSW, pieces of a wrecked Lockheed Hudson aircraft are a lonely monument to the three men who died in the 1954 crash, including World War 2 bomber pilot Doug Swain DFC. The wreckage is also a…

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A Catalina almost bombed Cessnock

On April 22, 1946, some residents of Cessnock were told by police to evacuate their homes and remove their children to safety. A Catalina flying boat from Rathmines RAAF base was going to drop bombs nearby, and authorities wanted to make sure there were no accidental casualties. A Catalina flying boat from the Rathmines base at Lake Macquarie, circa 1942. The unexpected evacuation order had nothing to do with the widespread severe flooding across the Lower Hunter at the time. Instead, it was fire that prompted the demand. Earlier that week a disused portion of Cessnock…

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