Saturday, December 31, 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Bertie's sad Christmas (1900)



Tottie: Let me order the dinner, Bertie.
Bertie: Oh, but you don't know enough about it, do you?
Tottie: Well, I can see what's the most expensive, can't I?

Sunday, October 9, 2016

1900 Baltimore American Coal advertising



This is about $115 dollars in today's money, so not much but it might be close to a week's wages back then and you would need to supply yourselves more than once a winter.

Friday, August 19, 2016

1900 newpaper comic strip of crude millionaire



Millionaire (uncultivated, but proud of his wealth): "I tell you, I'm a self made man."
Stranger: I'm glad to hear it, so there's nobody else you can blame."

Monday, August 8, 2016



Mrs. Winifred Worm "Why in mourning, dear?"
Mrs. Wilheimina Word "A sad bereavement befell our family today. My husband, while in the house tending the baby, was bitten in two by William, the farmer's son."