A Kind Face in 1928. And a Deadly Sinking in the Pacific.

            The Postcard

A Valentine's Attwell Snookums Series postcard by permission of the distributors of Universal Pictures.

'Snookums' is a term of endearment, in use by 1910. It was derived from the name of the baby added in 1907 to the popular New York World comic strip "The Newlyweds" by U.S. cartoonist George McManus.

The card was posted in Glasgow using a ½d. stamp on Friday the 6th. July 1928. It was sent to:

Mr. W. Oliver,
10, Coxon Street,
Sunderland,
Co. Durham.

The brief message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Best wishes from
Cardonald.
A. G. P. xx"

Cardonald is an outlying suburb of Glasgow. It was once a village in its own right.

The Sinking of the Angamos

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 6th. July 1928, the sinking of the Chilean Navy transport Angamos killed 262 of the 269 people on board. The dead included women and children.

The vessel capsized in a storm in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the port of Lebu. Only seven people were rescued.

Driven insane by despair as he stood on the bridge, and watching the passengers fight desperately to save themselves, Captain Ismael Suarez is reported to have killed himself a few seconds before his vessel vanished under the waves.

Lights of New York

Also on that day, Lights of New York, the first all-talking full-length film, premiered at the Strand Theatre in New York City.

René Lacoste

Also on the 6th. July 1928, René Lacoste defeated Henri Cochet in the Gentleman's Singles Final of the Wimbledon tennis championships.

W3XK

Also on that day, the experimental television station W3XK began airing programming. It was broadcast from the laboratory of Charles Francis Jenkins. 

Broadcasting began at 8:00 p.m. every night except Sunday, and initially consisted of short films lasting a few minutes each. The images were scanned at a resolution of 48 lines.

Einar Lundborg

Also on the 6th. July 1928, a Swedish aviator landed at the site of the stranded Italia crew and rescued Einar Lundborg.

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