Questionable Advice & Advertisements

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cabbagingcove:

What a mass of filthy, exciting, poisonous matter is printed these days. Boys, beware!

[A Boy at Fifteen: Before and After, 1903]

“Exciting” literature: leading boys astray since 1436.

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~ Kent’s New Commentary: A Manual for Young Men, by C.H. Kent, 1880

~ The Guide to Reading (The Pocket University, Vol. XXIII), 1925
via Internet Archive

~ The Guide to Reading (The Pocket University, Vol. XXIII), 1925
via Internet Archive

~ The Guide to Reading (The Pocket University, Vol. XXIII), 1925
via Internet Archive

~ Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life, by William Cobbett, 1829

~ Health and Beauty, by John V. Shoemaker, L.L.D., M.D.; 1908

~ The Pinnacles, newsletter of Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, January 1927
via Digital Library of Appalachia

~ Advice to Young Men, William Cobbett, 1829
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“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers”

~ 1942, United States Office of War Information
via Northwestern University Library
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~ The World Today, vol. 4, January - July 1904