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65Koans For Canned Soup
Canned soup can be the answer to many meal time dilemmas, but is it also a path to enlightenment? Um, no, not really. But it is entertaining.
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65Some 1930s Cleaning Magic
You think it's hard to clean up grime now? Check out the 1930s version of the Magic Sponge (and the dirtiest wall ever in an ad) to appreciate modern cleansers. Bonus mothball tablet ad included!
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70Dr. Trask's Magnetic Ointment
Over on my history blog I've written about several Victorian cures which featured adjectives like magnetic or electric: there were chains, teething necklaces, oils, soaps, brushes and therapeutic belts and corsets - just to name a few (I know that...
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81The Liquid Pearl
Back in the Victorian era, face paint really WAS paint - or arsenic, or lead. Face enameling was expensive (and dangerous) - either at the chiropodist's (!) - or at home with some DIY Liquid Pearl.
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70Merchant's Gargling Oil
A typical Victorian patent medicine tends to have a startling name, a ridiculously wide range of uses, a flurry of hyberbole (often in the form of fascinating letters from happily cured folks) and - if we're lucky - some wonderfully loopy, but...
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72The Great 1910 Candy Breakfast
Permission to eat candy for breakfast from a professor old enough to be your great great grandfather!
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69Toothpaste To Go, 1890
I love looking through old magazines and books. You really find the most extraordinary things, recipes and weird products and odd customs and ideas. My favorite era is the VIctorian period, though if you read my retro blog you'll know that I love...
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59The Hub of the Universe (Also of Shirts)
The Hub of the Universe This 1883 shirt advertisement is not a message to the future reader and writers of HubPages, but is referring to the "Hub" Shirt Emporium in Boston, Massachusetts. And the store was called that because just as New York is...
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78The Joys of Peppermint
I never realized how much I like peppermint before I wrote this - or how many times a day I use tings with peppermint oil in them. Peppermint tea is one of my favorite after dinner drinks, though. And on special occasions - which are always more...
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69The Thousand Golden Buddhas of Staten Island
When I was in grade school back in the 70s, in New York City, we went on a lot of field trips to some pretty cool places: the Metropolitan Museum (for the hieroglyphics and mummies), the Planetarium (constellations projected onto the ceiling, neck...
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