Google News has countless kooky and peculiar scanned newspapers on its excellent news service site and I thank them daily for the incredible supply. I only dream of the day Google posts even more of them.One of the strangest local papers is something called Le Goglu, which lasted for 2.5 years when launched in 1929 and was briefly revived for 15 months in 1946.
The paper calls itself a satire and has the requisite ridiculous articles, such as one about dead bodies attacking grave diggers.
But as we have seen, satire has long been used as a smokescreen for libel and Le Goglu uses their satire label to issue a vigorously anti-Semitic outlook.The writers make constant references to what they describes interchangeably as the Liberal Party and Jews, or implies that Jews run the liquor business and so forth.
One article suggests that "Soon the Jews will post a huge sign in front of the cross on Mount Royal "without distinction of race or religion "
"This formula has served to magnetize the bad element of the Liberal party."Of course no such sign was ever put up as far as we've heard.
The staff of six are all listed as Emile Goglu. But it's known that local fascist leader Adrien Arcand edited the paper, among others, for some time.
The artwork is top flight and the paper is a valuable historical document, although we hope nobody looking at it today gets influenced into its insane point of view.