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Actual headlines…
September 10, 2011 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
We offer thanks to fellow collector Morris Brill for some of the following headlines which appeared in recent newspapers:
“Iraqi Head Seeks Arms”
“Cold Wave Linked To Temperatures”
“Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge”
“Many Antiques At Senior Citizens’ Sale”
“Lack of Brains Hinders Research””
“Prisoners Escape After Execution”
“No Cause of Death Determined Fro Beheading Victim”
“Teacher Dies; Board Accepts His Resignation”
“Experts Are Sure The Dow Will Either Rise Or Decline”
“Lucky Man Sees Friend Die”
“Voluntary Workers Strike For Higher Pay”
Actual headlines in 2002…
August 20, 2011 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
We offer thanks to fellow collector Morris Brill for the following headlines which appeared in 2002:
“Something Went Wrong In Jet Crash, Experts Say”
“Police Begin Campaign To run Down Jaywalkers”
“Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over”
“Teacher Strikes Idle Kids”
“Miners Refuse To Work After Death”
“Juvenile Court To Try Shooting Defendant”
“War Dims Hope For Peace”
“If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile”
“Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges”
“Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead”
“Kids Make Nutritious Snacks!”
“New Study Of Obesity Looks For Larger Test Group”
(more later!)
eBay searching… a suggestion…
September 5, 2009 by GuyHeilenman · Leave a Comment
The following suggestion was sent to Rare Newspapers from one of our faithful members, Morris Brill. We thought it worth posting:
Whenever a major event occurs such as Obama’s Election, or Inauguration, or Michael Jackson‘s Death, we wind up with perhaps a thousand listings on Ebay.
This makes it very difficult to find significant listings of newspapers concerning other subjects, as the reader must wade through hundreds of listings about Michael Jackson just to find a paper you may have listed about Lincoln’s Death or a Revolutionary Period newspaper.
What I found out is that if you go to the main newspaper listing page of Ebay and in the area titled: “Find” if you type “newspapers –Jackson” you will get all the newspaper listings minus any listings for Michael Jackson.
In this manner a buyer does not have to hunt for your truly historic gems as he/she eliminates what could perhaps amount to 50 percent of all the listings on Ebay when a major story breaks.
After Obama’s nomination, election, inauguration, and Jackson’s death I had to all but stop looking at eBay because I just did not have the patience to view hundreds of listings of the same story.
I suspect that if you looked at your unit sales the week before Michael Jackson’s death and the week after his death you may find you experienced a significant decline in unit sales because no one could even find your more important listings among all the Jackson listings.
For those buyers who do not mind looking at hundreds of listings of the same subject they can just type “newspapers” without the –Jackson, or –obama, or –black Sunday.
Just a thought.
Morris