Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
315 followers · 1927 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

"He Taught His Baby Vile Oaths"

This stacked headline from the newspaper sometime in the 1930s caught my eye. Reading the story, no question the vile oaths were the least of it.

#albanyny #oldnewspapers #newspapers #newspaperclippings #headlines

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
310 followers · 1900 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Not all of you can be a . Some of you have to be a Girl Elevator Operator.

I grew up in the '60s and '70s; the idea of advertising jobs by sex is, unfortunately, not foreign to me. But I've been mystified by this one in a couple of directions. First, impressed they thought a female was qualified to operate an elevator. Second, confused why they would specifically be looking for one (this was not a single-sex hotel).

#girlboss #newspapers #newspaperclippings #oldnewspapers #sexism

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PattyHankins · @PattyHankins
968 followers · 125 posts · Server genealysis.social

I'm going through newspapers on the NYS Historic Newspapers site for mentions of my grandmother Evelyn Call. I never knew she played the violin!

#Genealogy #familyhistory #oldnewspapers #newyork

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
267 followers · 1371 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
267 followers · 1363 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

You don't need your teeth to drink:

#oldnewspapers #oldnews #newspaperclippings

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Ludibriumventis · @ludibriumventis
318 followers · 1566 posts · Server wandering.shop

When your marriage is so scandalous it knocks the off to the side of the front page

(Or, maybe there was just so much bad news that they had to toss in some shocking gossip to lighten the mood?)

#titanic #oldnewspapers #vintagescandal

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E.N. Wilson · @chiselerneil
34 followers · 334 posts · Server mas.to

Make John Cena the driver and this would still be the ultimate childhood nightmare. (Greensboro (NC) Daily News, 21 Sept, 1949)

#oldnewspapers #icecreamplant #circuswagon

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
227 followers · 1201 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Found this advertisement in a 1901 Ohio newspaper. Where can I buy these amazing pills!?

#deathfollows #oldadvertisement #oldnewspapers #nervous #mentalhealth #1900s

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
213 followers · 1045 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Sometimes I find headlines in old and I don't want to read the explanation.

#newspapers #localhistory #oldnewspapers

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Suzanne · @Suzanne
43 followers · 206 posts · Server toot.io

The Alabama Citizen, 1917.

#oldnewspapers

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Ludibriumventis · @ludibriumventis
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Suzanne · @Suzanne
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Ludibriumventis · @ludibriumventis
273 followers · 1265 posts · Server wandering.shop

Anyone got a backwards time machine? This looks like a ton of fun!


#1917

#oldnewspapers #dancing #ukuleleorchestra

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Chris · @77chrisc
52 followers · 218 posts · Server mas.to

1-20-81 The hostages are released from Iran.

#northcarolina #charlotte #80s #newspaper #oldnewspapers

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
179 followers · 743 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

On my desktop I keep running across this hypnotic photo of blue-eyed Fern Jackson, Miss Syracuse of 1925. Sometimes faces from the past just look incredibly modern to me – like she couldn't possibly have lived a century ago.

#localhistory #oldnewspapers #oldphotographs #foundphotographs #syracuse #syracuseny

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
141 followers · 550 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Exquisite waists are made of crepe.

#oldnewspapers #headlines

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LynnC · @LynnC
25 followers · 61 posts · Server mas.to

Going through old papers from my grandmother. February 15, 1930, Canadian Press reported this which was picked up here in the Manitoba Free Press. “Women Better Air Travellers Than Men, say Officials”.
Oh those silly incoherent men!

#oldnewspapers

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Carl Johnson · @cjonthehudson
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John Arnold · @JohnDA
7 followers · 31 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net

Personal Matters column in _The Evening Post_, 10 December 1904:
Mr. G. J. Payne, late of the Britannia Hotel, on the eve of his departure for Christchurch was entertained by his Wellington friends and presented with a useful souvenir.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

It’s interesting to see how old newspapers functioned a bit like social media today.

#onthisday #newzealand #oldnewspapers #paperspast

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