Ye Olde News

• 2013-06-09

  

  I would pay untold amounts of money for the “You Make Me Tired” button.

  (source: Robert H. Ingersoll & Bros. Catalog, 1898.)

• 2013-06-08

  

  Oh asbestos. Is there anything you can’t do?

  (source: Robert H. Ingersoll & Bros. Catalog, 1898.)

• 2013-06-06

  

  That is the most dapper fake mustache I have ever seen.

  (source: Robert H. Ingersoll & Bros. Catalog, 1898.)

• 2013-06-02

  Between BuzzFeed and the Star Trek listing I have gained a fairly ridiculous number of followers in the last two weeks. So I just wanted to take a minute to welcome everybody!

  Hi! I’m Sam(antha). If anybody has any questions/comments/requests feel free to drop me a line! I’d love to hear from you :)

• 2013-06-01

  

  So apparently fans of the local Hannibal, Missouri baseball team were known as the “Hannibal fandom” in the 1910s.

  (source: The Moberly Daily Monitor, March 2, 1911.)

• 2013-05-30

  Looks like Back to the Five & Dime may have found an explanation for our love-sick lobster!

  This may or may not solve your lobster mystery! http://postcardcollector.org/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/11955

  — backtothefiveanddime

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  If anyone could explain what is happening here, I would be forever grateful.

  (source: Puck magazine, June 20, 1914.)

• 2013-05-29

  

  Are you telling me that “flying what-nots” lost out to “UFOs”?

  I am very disappointed in you 1947.

  (source: The Sheboygan Press, July 9, 1947. [Right at the height of the 1947 flying saucer sightings.])

• 2013-05-24

  

  Who doesn’t need a Fonz bean bag chair?

  (source: The Sears Catalog, Spring-Summer 1977.)

• 2013-05-23

  

  A TV schedule listing for the first episode of Star Trek.

  (source: The Bridgeport Post, September 8, 1966.)