1959: State Bank of Worthington Gets Patriotic
This patriotic ad from the State Bank of Worthington honors America's founding fathers, John, Paul, George and Ringo. Er. Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jay, Madison, and others.
I really like this ad and I wish more people would take the time to learn about the extraordinary people who shaped the United States during its early years.
If you prefer a summarizing, interpreted text, I'd recommend David McCullough's 1776. If you want to get your history straight from the tap, so to speak, give The Federalist Papers a shot. Project Gutenberg has them online for free, and they're handy, short little essays about the various topics involved in forming a democratic republic as opposed to a loose confederation of states. Or there is the Constitution, or the fierier Declaration of Independence.
Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/03/2009 at 12:00 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, advertising, banks, business, holidays, independence day
1959: Sibley Man, Dog Attacked; Attacker Clubbed to Death
A man and a dog were attacked in Sibley, Iowa, and the attacker was clubbed to death.
You have to get to the second paragraph before you find out the exact nature of the attacker.
I love it!
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/03/2009 at 9:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, animals, attack, crime, dog, news
1959: I See Dead People
Did I call it or what?
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/03/2009 at 5:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, art, comics, drawings, entertainment
1900: Bigelow Hits the Big Time
For some reason this column was in absolutely tiny text, as if there were so much news from Bigelow that it couldn't be fit into the Daily Advance any other way. (Note that this may or may not have actually been the case.)
Apparently, there was only one harpist in Sioux City and everyone knew who it was so well they didn't bother to put in even a last name.
Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/02/2009 at 12:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1900, agriculture, daily advance, entertainment, horses, injury, news, newspapers, politics
1900: Possibly Deranged Teacher Vanishes, Also Thanks for the Cherries
These days, a mysterious disappearance (of a teacher, thought to be becoming deranged) would be at the top of the page and the nice thanks-for-the-cherries note would be at the bottom.
Although the murder attempt on a formerly local pastor might have gone above that too.
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/02/2009 at 9:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1900, cherries, crime, daily advance, food
1900: Women Are Bad
Here's some information about the Jameson Raid, and frankly, I don't see anything whatsoever about women in it. Granted, it's Wikipedia, which isn't the most reliable of sources, but I rather strongly suspect the bottom article (which went on with many other examples of alleged female perfidy) is just as dated as the first.
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/02/2009 at 5:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1900, daily advance, editorials, opinion, poetry, war, women
2009, 1959: Rocket Man's Wife Writes
The young rocket man kneeling in the picture on the left (click here for a larger version) spent his career in aerospace, according to his wife, who kindly wrote a note on the earlier post, which I will reproduce here:
After he built the rocket described in this story, Doug Seaton spent a lifetime in aerospace--first serving as a radar officer during two tours of duty in Vietnam, then managing electronics labs for the Air Force in Europe and the U.S. In civilian life, he developed radar for the B-1 bomber and set up the original manufacturing facilities for DirecTV's satellite receivers. And 22 years ago next month, he married me.
Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/01/2009 at 2:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, 2009, letters, news, photos, rockets, science, technology
1959: Leary's Cafe
Treat your taste royally to our tasty, delicious meals, with all the fixin's, at Leary's Cafe.
Whatever your mood, we have the food to suit it.
Note that this ad makes a jello mold look kind of appetizing. Eat your (jiggly, fruit-filled) heart out, James Lileks!
Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/01/2009 at 12:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, advertising, business, food, restaurants
1900: Pills May Have Sparked Federal Truth in Advertising Campaign
No one seems to have known quite what was in these pills. Some people seem to think they had pennyroyal and others think not, and some people think they had pennyroyal and tansy, both of which are known to cause abortions, but in such high doses that a woman was taking a serious chance she might die if she used them.
I'm not sure how reliable that site is, though, so please, grain of salt for everything online that isn't a documented source.
That said, here are some images, apparently, of the red and gold metallic boxes, though these are some time after 1906.
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/01/2009 at 9:00 AM | Comments (1) | Permalink
Tags: 1900, advertising, business, daily advance, health, medicine, quackery
1959: Fredi Lowry Talks Babies, Alligators and Potted People
Man. I wonder what the city ordinances say about keeping an alligator?
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 7/01/2009 at 5:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, animals, columns, fredi lowry, opinion
1900: 5 Cent Cigars and the Hotel Vendome
First-class dealers sell Sealette, the great 5 cent cigar.
The Hotel Vendome, a first-class hotel in a central location with a European plan. Which European plan, you may ask? Probably not this one.
Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 6/30/2009 at 12:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1900, advertising, business, cigars, daily advance, hotels, patents, smoking
1959: The Walk Shop
The Walk Shop, featuring shoes with a surprisingly spiky bottom, from Sandler of Boston.
I'm not sure I want my shoes, or their step-in, to be described as "buttery."
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 6/30/2009 at 9:00 AM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, advertising, business, shoes, style
1959: Drugs in the Late 1950s
An Associated Press story from 1959 deals with the problem of amphetamine, also known as "pep pills, thrill pills, goof balls, red jackets, or red birds."
J.F. Rabe, the supervisor of the narcotics division of the State Pharmacy Board, said he couldn't account for the increase in the use of "uppers," but that "Perhaps it's the tempo of modern day living."
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 6/30/2009 at 5:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, associated press, crime, drugs, nation and world, news
1900: In-Depth Stories of the Day
The friends of Attorney Borst, of Windom will regret to hear of the death of his son from the results of an operation for appendicitis Saturday.
H. Peter Lewis has run up against the real thing again, as he always does when he starts out, this time he is carrying a large size boil on his face which is giving him some trouble. But he is still doing business at the old stead.
Joseph Steinberger had a strange experience Tuesday night which might have proved a serious matter, but luckily it amounted to nothing more than a big scare. He loaded his wagon up with barrels to get filled with water at the lake, he took with him in the wagon three of his own children and one or two of the neighbor's children, as he got out in the lake some little distance he discovered his horses and the wagon sinking in the quick sand. He succeeded in getting the children ashore and then saved his team, but the wagon remains fast in the lake.
Tuesday Sibley had a bad accident from firecrackers. A merchant had a pile of fireworks in the front window of his store and on lighting the lamp in the evening dropped a lighted match in the fireworks which exploded, blowing out the whole store front.
The Signal is an up-to-date newspaper. Bigelow should feel proud of her editor, C. M. Davis, for giving us such a paper.
W.M. Yahn is not getting along very fast with his broken limb. He says that the only thing that he is sorry for is that he cannot get out in the grass to wash his feet any more.
Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 6/29/2009 at 12:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1900, business, daily advance, health, news, newspapers
1959: Polio Still Alive, a Threat
Polio still exists and we have not yet completely eradicated it. However, it is considered gone from the Americas and from Europe, though as of 2006 it was still present in Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Vaccines can be injected, but there are also vaccines that can be taken orally.
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 6/29/2009 at 9:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Tags: 1959, advertising, health, medicine, news, polio, technology
1900: Got Milk? You Need a Cream Separator.
An ad for the Davis Cream Separator Co. was printed in the Advance in June 1900. Apparently it was a gadget for separating cream from milk, which I hadn't realized was necessary.
So Julie Buntjer called up her mom and she gave us the inside skinny on milking a cow and dealing with the fresh, non-homogenized milk. Here, paraphrased, is what she said (apologies to those of you who already knew this, but I'm a town kid, so I didn't):
The fresh milk has to be cooled for so long at a certain temperature before the cream will come to the top, and farmers don't have time to do that, so they run it through the cream separator while it's still warm.
You'd milk the cow and put it through the separator right away. Then the cream would be sold to the creamery and take the skim milk left over and feed it to the baby pigs. (Just like it says in the ad!)
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Posted by: Kari Lucin, Daily Globe on 6/29/2009 at 5:00 AM | Comments (0) | Permalink
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