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.

Here's a shoddily pieced together scan of a partial calendar from 1905 by the Detroit Journal . A newspaper that I had never heard of before finding this lone card stock poster at a Farmington estate sale the other day.

Muhammad Speaks, October 3, 1969 ( enlarge ) Years after Malcolm X left Inkster, the Nation of Islam and this mortal plane his former sect attacked him mercilessly with excoriating harangues. Foolishly so. From an outsider's vantage point it makes one suspect that Malcolm was not only right in his estimation of Elijah Muhammad and the accusations against him but dead-on. In the October 3, 1969 issue of Muhammad Speaks John Ali, then National Secretary for the Nation of Islam, exclaimed that both the Whiteman and hypocrites love Malcolm. Which, I believe even in the loosest terms was and is a complete falsehood. I would say that both entities, the group and the man, were maligned though I would guess that Malcolm X became the more sympathetic figure after his execution. Personally, I have issues with each side in terms of general philosophy, being that I am not a Marxist or a sectarian, but I also agree with both sides on certain aspects. One being that forced integration was...