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Annie? Rauwerda?@anniierau · Oct 29, 2026

thread of headlines from newspaper archives about people with the same names as future famous people!!!!

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A thread sharing amusing newspaper archive headlines featuring people who share names with famous contemporary figures, like a Bill Gates from Seattle from a century ago and an Ella Langley from Texas. The poster discovered these gems through Newspapers.com access via the Wikipedia Library and found them entertaining enough to cross-post from Instagram and Bluesky.

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    thread of headlines from newspaper archives about people with the same names as future famous people!!!!

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    i found all of these on newspapers dot com this week, which i get for free through the wikipedia library because i'm an editor!!!! also i'm not really active here anymore just crossposting this since people liked it on ig/bsky

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    100 years earlier there was a different Bill Gates in Seattle

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    obsessed with this Ella Langley (from Texas!) who was recovering from a nervous breakdown and decided to cover her walls with buttons because she needed a hobby

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