1984.112.016

This is a scrapbook containing a large collection of newspaper clippings focusing on a multitude of important national and international events that took place during the mid to late 1950s. Space-Race articles about the Sputnik satellite and Laika, the first dog in space as well as political stories surrounding Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman and the atomic bomb tests in Nevada take up most of the beginning of the book. Later on, articles about the building of Big Ben, Pope John XXII’s plans for the Vatican and tourism in Canada litter the pages of the book alongside many, many other smaller stories. The largest one-page article in the book is an informational article about Therese Neumann, a German Catholic mystic and stigmatic, and the most consistent run of pages about the same subject comes near the end, where most of the stories are focused on the history of religions like Christian Science, Congregationalism and The Episcopalians. To really drive home the fact that this scrapbook is quite miscellaneous when it comes to subject, one of the very last stories is actually about the breeding and behavior of the St. Bernard dog breed, of all things.