"Apparently was a Negro"

Find Student With Skull Crushed

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.--Her skull crushed with a paving brick, the nude body of Miss Anna Kuchta, a 19-year-old student nurse, was found in her second floor room at the Chicago Hospital on the south side today.....

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This edition of the Times -- No. 327 of its 37th year -- contained 18 pages and cost $0.03.

Detroit, Michigan, Monday, August 23, 1937

In researching a story that took place (or at least was written in the present tense) in 1937, I bought on eBay a Detroit newspaper from that year.

I'm fascinated by the past -- I love to see how attitudes have changed (or not), what popular things have faded into obscurity, etc. -- but often feel like the past is seen as static events, with no past and no future. These events are seen as inevitable conclusions to a series of steps.

It's my goal to explore the past, present and future of Detroit on Monday, August 23, 1937, as depicted in the Red Line edition of the Detroit Times.