Newspapers
Read published past issues of Leidsch Dagblad, with excerpts, translations and context.
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Manifesto of European and American financiers and industrialists.
This Leiden daily's front page of 20 October 1926 carried the opening of an appeal by European and American financiers and industrialists, presented as a forceful plea for free trade and a separation of politics and economics, which blamed postwar tariff walls, special licences and prohibitions for holding back the return to prosperity.
Read this newspaper →Our Burgomaster Is Leaving.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 19 October 1926 led with the news that Mayor N.
Read this newspaper →Dune Water Supply Working as Well as Normal Again
This Leiden front page of 18 October 1926 carried a headline saying the dune water supply was working normally again, but the text read under it is the close of a concert review.
Read this newspaper →THE LEIDSCHE HOUT.
The front page of the Leidsch Dagblad for 16 October 1926 carried the second instalment of a public appeal to re-found the Leidsche Hout, Leiden's lost wooded park.
Read this newspaper →THE LEIDSCHE HOUT.
This Leiden paper of 15 October 1926 mixed municipal business with a busy autumn lecture season.
Read this newspaper →A Partial Disruption of the Electricity Supply
The Leidsch Dagblad's front page of 14 October 1926 mixed municipal business, local news and church affairs.
Read this newspaper →THE DISASTER AT KATWIJK.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 13 October 1926 led with the human cost of the North Sea storm for Katwijk-aan-Zee.
Read this newspaper →Leiden Theatre
The Leidsch Dagblad of 12 October 1926 opened with a warm review of Theo Mann-Bouwmeester's farewell performance at the Leiden theatre in Henri Bataille's "The Child of Love".
Read this newspaper →KATWIJK IN MOURNING.
The Leidsch Dagblad of 11 October 1926 reported grief in Katwijk aan Zee: after weeks of mild, summery autumn weather, a sudden south-westerly storm on Saturday had sunk the fishing vessel K.W. 152 with all hands, and the report dwelt on the fear among fishermen's wives and mothers.
Read this newspaper →The Defective Water Supply Explained and Reduced to Modest Proportions
The front page of the Leidsch Dagblad for 9 October 1926 mixed civic business with culture.
Read this newspaper →Leiden in trouble.
This Leiden daily of 8 October 1926 mixed local, national and foreign news.
Read this newspaper →Total breakdown in the electricity supply.
The Leidsch Dagblad's front page for 7 October 1926 led its town news with a power failure that stopped every electrically driven factory in Leiden and in the neighbouring municipalities supplied by the municipal works.
Read this newspaper →City News
The Leidsch Dagblad of 6 October 1926 combined small-town notices with foreign politics.
Read this newspaper →A festival successful in every respect
The front page of the Leidsch Dagblad for 5 October 1926 looked back on Leiden's 3 October festival, which the paper says ran from Saturday afternoon until after midnight on Monday and succeeded without a single discordant note, though a mist on Monday morning may have disappointed some.
Read this newspaper →The 3 October festivities begin
This Saturday page opened Leiden's 3 October weekend with a lively preview.
Read this newspaper →25 Years as Professor: Prof. Mr. C. van Vollenhoven
The Leidsch Dagblad of 1 October 1926 gave its front page a strongly Leiden flavour.
Read this newspaper →The Third Lustrum of the Christian Mixed Choral Society "Halleluja"
This Leiden daily's page mixed civic ceremony, municipal housing policy and trade news.
Read this newspaper →75th Anniversary of the Sanders Soap Factory.
Leidsch Dagblad of 29 September 1926 reported staff appreciation, a crowded reception and an evening gathering for Sanders's anniversary.
Read this newspaper →THE GENERAL SITUATION.
Leidsch Dagblad’s 28 September 1926 reports covered international negotiations and financial uncertainty alongside everyday life in Leiden.
Read this newspaper →Mathesianen Association.
Music runs through the Leiden reports: the Mathesianen celebrated their ninth anniversary with an orchestra and communal singing, while a workers’ education meeting paired recruitment with a warmly applauded Tartini performance.
Read this newspaper →Decisions at the League of Nations Assembly.
The foreign-news band points to League decisions, approval of Stresemann’s diplomatic stance and a new British government communication on the mining dispute.
Read this newspaper →The decision on the American reservations concerning the Hague Court.
The three readable foreign-news notices flag a decision on American reservations to the Hague Court, renewed deadlock in the English mining dispute and Dempsey’s defeat by Tunney over 10 rounds.
Read this newspaper →Stresemann has returned to Berlin
Three readable items in the front-page foreign-news roundup say Stresemann has returned to Berlin, announce new talks in the English mining dispute, and report Kondilis’s withdrawal from politics in Greece.
Read this newspaper →Opinion and truth
The selected opening records an academic succession and an inaugural address in Leiden.
Read this newspaper →The Speech from the Throne
The selected opening of the throne speech combines gratitude for the people’s condition with an explicit acknowledgment of difficulties.
Read this newspaper →Transfer of the rectorship
The rectorship report describes helium research and international physics discussions.
Read this newspaper →Professor F. A. H. Schreinemakers
Leiden marks Schreinemakers’s twenty-five-year professorship, prepares a tuberculosis fundraising bazaar, and registers amateur theatre groups for a 45th-anniversary competition.
Read this newspaper →Former pupils of M. S. G.
Leiden’s alumni association supports a student library, a Haarlem rail rescue leads to a delay, and the League report explains Poland’s re-eligibility and Belgium’s refusal to seek the same status.
Read this newspaper →Instructions for participants in the 3 October parade and outdoor performance
A filmed tournament becomes a rehearsal aid, a skating club settles its new dues, and a river collision produces three rescues and two deaths.
Read this newspaper →In memory of Carolus Clusius
Leiden’s first page combines a botanist’s commemoration, the opening of a large modern shop and caution over a recent railway accident.
Read this newspaper →The railway accident at De Vink — Traffic resumes
Leiden’s page follows the gradual recovery of rail services after De Vink, demonstrates new municipal firefighting equipment, and describes a statue offered to Wageningen’s agricultural college.
Read this newspaper →Budget
Leidsch Dagblad shows ordinary municipal business alongside the social aftermath of the railway accident.
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