The date: Friday, 10 October 1924. The historic newspaper of the Greek community in New York, “Atlantis,” headlines political developments ahead of the elections, taking a clearly anti-Venizelist stance. Refugees – who would go on to play a decisive role in Greece’s history – also feature prominently in its coverage.
Leafing through its pages, we discover reports on:
- The revolutionaries “at the gates of Shanghai,” as written in the paper
- Dictator Mussolini offering Capri to the rich
- Presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt (as the paper spells it) outlining his agricultural policies before thousands of farmers in upstate New York
- Thousands of migrant workers in France searching for a day’s wage
- The victory of a young Greek boy from Messinia in American student games in Sacramento, California
- A concert by Marika Palaisti, prima donna of the Moscow Opera, at New York’s Plaza Hotel
- The wedding of the famous Greek wrestler Theodoros Antonopoulos (Anton the Greek) in Chicago, to a Greek-American woman from Michigan
And just like that – 101 years back in time – we’re reading the press of another era.