What was New Year’s Day front-page news 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago? Princess Xenia’s 1923 arrival, a D.C. centenarian’s 1948 birthday, a Redskins 1973 victory and a Kennedy’s 1998 death all commanded Washington Post headlines.
So what was on the United States’ collective mind as it rang in the New Year in decades past? Let’s take a look at what The Washington Post put on its front page.
reparations. Some was dramatic: a congressional debate in Mexico that nearly turned violent, with pistols drawn and duels proposed.And some, as was typical of the era, captured high society. Under the headline “Princess Xenia Decides She Will Like America,” the paper reported that Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia and her husband, the American tin scion William B. Leeds Jr., had arrived in New York and intended to have a good time.
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