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Phone books were sanitized. City directories would list occupations and they would be by area/address, so you could find neighbors. Also, newspapers would repo
by AStonesThrow 2y ago
Phone books were sanitized. City directories would list occupations and they would be by area/address, so you could find neighbors.
Also, newspapers would report on the doings of ordinary people, not just the society pages, e.g. "John Smith was in town today from Peoria, visiting friends for three days."
- AsmaraHolding 2y agoIn UK reporting it's still normal to include the street name of convicted criminals. Mr Smith of Agraria Road Guildford was today sentenced to 3 years in prison for...