As the holiday draws near, we thought it would be fun to pull some pages from the archives to see what the news of the day looked like through the years.
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For this edition of Vintage Dayton, we went into the archives to look at unique Christmas front pages, many of which include poems, cartoons and well-wishes.
More on Christmas history
• PHOTOS: Christmas Day front pages from the Dayton Daily News archives
• ‘A whole bunch of neat toys and a new baby brother’: 40 years of Dayton kids’ letters to Santa
• A week before Christmas in 1953, a midday robbery turned Dayton upside down
Did you know?
Here are a few great Dayton history facts we’ve learned from our stories:
• When Arthur Beerman arrived in Dayton at the age of 21, he took a job as a merchandise manager at the Home Store, a large department store downtown.
• The city of Dayton owes its beginning to Daniel C. Cooper. Few gave more of their time and money to the city of Dayton than Cooper, which is why his name adorns Cooper Park outside of the main downtown branch of the Dayton Metro Library.
• When Clifton Mill was built in 1802, it was thought to be the largest grist mill in existence at six stories tall. The mill provided flour and corn meal to Union soldiers during the Civil War.
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