Closing out 2025 with newspaper clippings from a bygone era
Posted By RichC on December 27, 2025
Really just cleaning out my folder of “things I’ve saved” because at the time I thought they were interesting.
First up, a newspaper clipping point to “Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants being American” from 1907. His point that “any man who says he is an American, but something else, isn’t an American at all.” I immediately thought about my wife Brenda’s Swedish immigrant grandparents who purposely forced English and American ways in their home and on their children. Brenda thought at the time that they did a disservice to their children by not teaching them Swedish as a second language or instilling more of the culture in their children. I can still hear the quoted comment: Because “you are American, Frances (Brenda’s mom).” 👉 Food for thought for those immigrating and wanting to assimilate in the United States.
On a totally different topic, besides being from a newspaper …
Here’s an automotive advertisement from 1969/1970 (the 1970 Ford Maverick does remind my of my college roommate — who loved his Maverick).
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