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Further searches have not determined whether Mrs. Edna Van Benschoten was ever reunited with her lost book.
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Further searches have not determined whether Mrs. Edna Van Benschoten was ever reunited with her lost book.
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Ah, old newspapers. Little gems like this make my day.
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Ah, old newspapers. Little gems like this make my day.
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I f*cking bet you'll scream.
Based on other context, I suspect this is a ventriloquist act.
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I f*cking bet you'll scream.
Based on other context, I suspect this is a ventriloquist act.
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Sept. 25, 1970: A time when someone would write to the local #newspaper Action Line to figure out where Disney World was, or rather where it was going to be, and a local snowbird had the answer.
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Sept. 25, 1970: A time when someone would write to the local #newspaper Action Line to figure out where Disney World was, or rather where it was going to be, and a local snowbird had the answer.
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The past is a weird place:
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The past is a weird place:
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Ladies, run the fuck away.
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Ladies, run the fuck away.
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Lusogeek streamer update: I’ve been ill since Monday with a nasty cold; I’m currently on the mend, having used the ‘special treatment’ from the Tetrio game and, with the help of a family member, getting rid of old documents, newspapers, magazines and other unnecessary items.
#lusogeek #streamer #creator #gamer #streaming #streamerupdate #tech #tetrio #sick #homework #hometasks #olddocuments #oldmagazines #oldnewspapers
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in 1921, this Nosferatu-adjacent creature was meant to entice you to buy sardines. Presumably.
#OldNewspapers #Advertising #OldAdvertisements #OldAdvertising
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in 1921, this Nosferatu-adjacent creature was meant to entice you to buy sardines. Presumably.
#OldNewspapers #Advertising #OldAdvertisements #OldAdvertising
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"Let us show you a knife" really didn't take off as a marketing catchphrase. Let's bring it back.
#OldNewspapers #OldAdvertising #OldAdvertisements #Schenectady
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"Let us show you a knife" really didn't take off as a marketing catchphrase. Let's bring it back.
#OldNewspapers #OldAdvertising #OldAdvertisements #Schenectady
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Beauty advice from 1913: Sage tea and sulphur.
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Beauty advice from 1913: Sage tea and sulphur.
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This probably didn't end well...
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This probably didn't end well...
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July 1870: Just a couple of months before wildly miscalculating what turned into the Franco-Prussian war. Presented for no particular reason.
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July 1870: Just a couple of months before wildly miscalculating what turned into the Franco-Prussian war. Presented for no particular reason.
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We are all Rensselaer's mayor. [1903]
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We are all Rensselaer's mayor. [1903]
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When I took this – or even ten years ago, for that matter – I could not have imagined that city newsstands would almost completely disappear someday. This is from November 1979, in downtown #SyracuseNY. His name was Pete Mussi, and he was a fixture there for decades. He's holding up the afternoon paper, because at the time a city the size of Syracuse could still support two newspapers.
#OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto #filmPhotography #Syracuse #Newspaper #OldNewspapers
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When I took this – or even ten years ago, for that matter – I could not have imagined that city newsstands would almost completely disappear someday. This is from November 1979, in downtown #SyracuseNY. His name was Pete Mussi, and he was a fixture there for decades. He's holding up the afternoon paper, because at the time a city the size of Syracuse could still support two newspapers.
#OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto #filmPhotography #Syracuse #Newspaper #OldNewspapers
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Hey, turns out employment ad scams are nothing new. Here's a beauty from 1927 that I'm absolutely certain was a totally legitimate opportunity and probably neither murder nor multi-level marketing:
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Hey, turns out employment ad scams are nothing new. Here's a beauty from 1927 that I'm absolutely certain was a totally legitimate opportunity and probably neither murder nor multi-level marketing:
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#OldNewspapers #1828 #Obituaries##Combs #Horses
This clipping was with my father's collection of family memorabilia.
I can only assume the newspaper was from 1828, as that's the date on one item advertising comb repair.
It was the obituary that caught my eye, though. So young. I haven't looked up the name.
I will get to the alt text a bit later. Apologies.
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#OldNewspapers #1828 #Obituaries##Combs #Horses
This clipping was with my father's collection of family memorabilia.
I can only assume the newspaper was from 1828, as that's the date on one item advertising comb repair.
It was the obituary that caught my eye, though. So young. I haven't looked up the name.
I will get to the alt text a bit later. Apologies.
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So preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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So preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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1895. I say he had it coming. #OldNewspapers #Troy #TroyNY #newspapers #headlines
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1895. I say he had it coming. #OldNewspapers #Troy #TroyNY #newspapers #headlines
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Ads from the summer weekly student newspaper where I worked, offering typing services. 1980. It was truly a different world. Not a lot of people typed, or needed to, and a typist could make decent side money. None of these ads were mine, but that's definitely my model of Coronamatic in the clip art in the middle.
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Ads from the summer weekly student newspaper where I worked, offering typing services. 1980. It was truly a different world. Not a lot of people typed, or needed to, and a typist could make decent side money. None of these ads were mine, but that's definitely my model of Coronamatic in the clip art in the middle.
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I regret to inform you that Mattices' has long since closed, and despair is now an option.
#oldNewspapers #advertising #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #TroyNewYork #TroyNY #CollarCity
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I regret to inform you that Mattices' has long since closed, and despair is now an option.
#oldNewspapers #advertising #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #TroyNewYork #TroyNY #CollarCity
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This is definitely one of my most prized possessions. It's a Romanian satirical newspaper called "Furnica" ("The Ant") from January 1910.
I love this because it's a very good reflection of the people's problems from over 100 years ago and it shows that they were exactly like us. Nothing's really changed. This is 3 years after the Romanian Peasants Revolt of 1907 (an important event in Romanian history) and 4 years before WWI. (1/2)
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News sure was different way back when. 1930s #Albany NY #newspaper headline:
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I was doing some painting today, and pulled out my stash of newspaper to protect my table. Mid-painting I happened to notice the date on the paper and had a spontaneous nostalgia hit. The world didn't end after all! 😆
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Public Service Announcement: If your dead wife tells you to give all your property to a medium, perhaps get a second opinion.
Story from my old neighborhood at the link:
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I'm trying to get my little #LocalHistory blog, the confusingly named Hoxsie, moving along at a somewhat more regular (if not blistering) pace. My last big project took three years, so I'm returning to the days of just posting little snippets in hopes of getting some ideas out of my folder. I started with a brief piece about "the human semaphore of the traffic squad" in #AlbanyNY nearly a century ago:
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I'm trying to get my little #LocalHistory blog, the confusingly named Hoxsie, moving along at a somewhat more regular (if not blistering) pace. My last big project took three years, so I'm returning to the days of just posting little snippets in hopes of getting some ideas out of my folder. I started with a brief piece about "the human semaphore of the traffic squad" in #AlbanyNY nearly a century ago:
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Visiting the spaces I lived in four decades ago brought back a raft of memories and feelings. In this entry, I tried to capture the feeling of the 2-1/2 years I spent working on a college institution, #SyracuseUniversity's Daily Orange.
#memoirs #DailyOrange #newspaper #oldnewspapers #journalism
https://mynonurbanlife.com/going-back-part-four-the-daily-orange/
