The Nankin Township Historical Society

My mania with newspapers probably started when I delivered The Detroit News for almost 10 years as a kid. I read the newspaper everyday with my big fat orange cat Bobcat and he even walked my route with me sometimes. Anyway, I picked up this New Detroit News carrier card of Scott Eastman at John King Books on Tuesday. The address, 2086 19th Street, seems to correspond to Wyandotte. Which is ironic because I'm likely going there tomorrow for an estate sale plus I am going to post some ephemera from there later. Not to mention that I have a large pile of newspaper from Wyandotte dating to the early quarter of the 1900s which I have sorely neglected. Ho hum. Well, I tracked down Scott and am sending the card to him. I'll have only owned it for less than a day but it's the right thing to do. He said that the card dates to 1974-75 when he was a carrier.

I realize that next-to-nobody gives a flip about my burgeoning bookplate collection but I have tunnel vision in regard to what other people want as far as historical context goes. My preference would be to feature only local Ex-Libris plates but I take what I can find. Half of what I do find comes from a free book trough at McKay's in Knoxville, Tennessee or from thrift stores when I'm down there visiting my daughter. This was another freebie with a very pertinent topic: Mex ico. Apparently, just as now, we were at political loggerheads with the Mexican government over trade in the 1910s-30s. Then, it was in concerns to seized American properties by the Mexican President Cardenas. While I don't know much about the political context of said dispute I would guess that the mention of Trotsky, Europe and even Hitler in some of the copious political cartoons suggests a socialist-communist bent to the rationale for expropriation. Regardless, the subject, content and bookplat...