BEVERLY, MASS. (WHDH) – The owner of a construction company made a historic discovery while working on his own property in Beverly.
Jonian Beqo said he was clearing out his home\u2019s carriage house when he came across some old newspapers but, all of the articles seem like they were ripped from today\u2019s headlines.
\u201cRight away I said, \u2018Wait a minute, war in Ukraine against Russia. This is what\u2019s happening right now,’\u201d he said.
But, these copies of the Haverhill Evening Gazette with the latest on Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine are dated from 1918.
\u201cPeople getting killed and injured- innocent people getting killed and injured. And these people are reliving the same exact thing,\u201d Beqo said.
Beqo said his family is from eastern Europe and that his grandfather is excited to get his hands on these pieces of history.
\u201cHe\u2019s lived through some of this stuff; his parents have lived through some of this stuff. So he\u2019s waiting eagerly to read through this, kind of refresh what has happened,\u201d Beqo said. \u201cTo him, this is almost nostalgia.\u201d
Though history often repeats, Beqo said it is still shocking to see the similarities a century later.
\u201cYou would think that people are more civilized; things are just easier to be dealt with diplomatically, rather than with a war,\u201d he said.
And it is not just war in Ukraine that is the same. There is an article about the ongoing pandemic \u2014 in this case, the Spanish flu.
Beqo said there is only one thing that sticks out as being different between these old papers and today\u2019s news.
In a 1918 edition of the Boston Herald, he pointed out a list of produce for sale at Faneuil Market. As it happens, things were just a little cheaper back then. According to the paper, people could buy steak for just $.38 a pound and complete the meal with seven pounds of potatoes for just $.25.<\/p>\n
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