~ The Sunday Morning Star, April 23, 1939
“Swing music can be bad, too. Especially if a person is not very highly developed mentally and culturally.”
~ The Dixie Druggist, A Monthly Magazine for Southern Druggists, 1913
Catnip toys: making cats act silly since 1913.
~ Stevens Chair Co., c. 1905
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“They are arranged to be propelled by sprocket, crank and chain movement.”
Interesting use of the hand crank…
~ The Referee & Cycling Trade Journal: A Weekly Record and Review of Cycling and the Cycling Trade, 1893
~ Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro., The Great Mail-Order Bargain House, ca. 1898
“Have you some friend who is “bossy” or thinks she ought to vote?”
~ The House-Keeper’s Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Pastry, Pickling, Collaring, &c., by Mrs. Sarah Harrison, 1760
Historical Notes:
1) “Sheep’s Lights” = sheep lungs
2) I am not sure whether “a Looseness” is constipation or diarrhea, but in either case it’s good to know that it can be eased with “comfortable Things”.
~ Jordan, Marsh & Co., Spring and Summer 1897
via internet archive
Anna Held was a famous Ziegfeld girl and is often credited with helping Ziegfeld establish his famous Ziegfeld Follies. Eventually she became his common-law wife, although they did not remain together.
A picture of her on her bicycle (below) was part of a montage of “Actresses as Bicycle Riders” which is still available to purchase today.
~ W. J. Gage & Co., 1911-1912
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Germ-Proof Slates: “Each slate is put through a special process which leaves it free from any danger of infection in future, and makes it completely Germ-proof.”
~ May 1937
via Scott Edelman
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~ Etti-Cat for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (1962)
New York Transit Museum, via Vintage Ads LJ
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~ The Young Man’s Guide, by William Alcott, 1846
caprice: a tendency to change one’s mind without apparent or adequate motive (dictionary.com)
~ Correct Social Usage: a Course of Instruction in good Form, Style and Deportment, by Eighteen Distinguished Authors, 1906
