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Berkeley -- Red Baron link?

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We expected to find a review of the book at hand, but when we unfolded the paper it appeared to be a 100% size Xerox copy of the front page of a much older newspaper.

 

A story about Miss Margaret Hayne was circled in red.

 

Since a portion of the image identifies the San Francisco Chronicle as the source and sine it makes reference to the fact that Captain Baron von Richthofen had been shot down the week before, it would be relatively simple to track down the exact date of publication.

 

If we went to the San Francisco Public Library it would probably require just another hour or two of library research to ascertain that information and perhaps provide the basis for sending a feature story query letter to a magazine that appeals to an audience of aviation enthusiasts.  

 

A quick online search revealed that the Red Baron was killed on the 21 st of April in 1918, which was just a few days after the United States marked the first full year of participation in the War to end all Wars.   Congress had declared war on April 6, 1917 because of a torpedo attack on the passenger liner Lusitania.   Conspiracy theory lunatics have challenged the veracity of the official accounts of the incident ever since.

 

The alternative would be to put the information into the less scholarly form of a loopy column and skip over the need for extensive academic research.

 

Information that had been previously published several decades ago won't qualify the column as a "scoop," but a few Google searches indicated that a column about Ms. Hayne and the Red Baron would provide some information online that hasn't previously been easily accessible for the curious readers on the Internets.  

 

At the same time and place that we bought the Red Baron book, we had also purchased a mint condition copy of a 2003 Barnes and Noble paperback edition of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," with introduction and notes by Maura Spiegel.   It was obvious from the blurbs on the back cover that if the columnist reads that book another column about how the exploitation of workers by the wealthy Chicago meatpacking company owners would write itself.   Sinclair called the area Packingtown.

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