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Howard Hughes injured in 1946 plane crash (2018)

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This style of print journalism in 1946 is riveting and full of detail, right down to who owned each destroyed building, their occupation and where they were located at the time the plane tore apart their dwelling. Photos are also quite interesting. Would have been nice to see the scan of the original paper.

> Would have been nice to see the scan of the original paper.

That doesn't seem to be available online. However, there is a scan of another Hughes story from a year later that they posted from their archive. (Pictures on page 4)

https://documents.latimes.com/flight-spruce-goose-huge-craft...

Reminds me of a running joke in Terry Pratchett's _The Truth_ that the paper prints as many names (plus age, address, and maybe a brief bit of information about them) as possible because those people will then want to buy a copy.

    "‘Mr Goodmountain, can you think of any reason I should put this in the paper?’ said William, handing him Sacharissa’s report of the Flowers and Cookery meeting. ‘It’s a bit … dull …’
    The dwarf read the copy. ‘There’s seventy-three reasons,’ he said. ‘That’s ’cos there’s seventy-three names. I expect people like to see their names in the paper.’"

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