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A handy stairlight for your mansion…1895

June 22, 2010

A  Convenient Stair  Light… Persons ascending stairs to their rooms after the gas has been turned off for the night may find the travelling night lamp which we illustrate useful. The lamp is suspended between two guides by means of a counterpoise in such a manner that when the person, after lighting it, takes hold [...]

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Ethical Advertising?

June 18, 2010

I still wonder today at the power of Images to sway the will, and lure folks into parting with their readies, through Advertising….works better today than it did 150 years ago!

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Post-Boxes are Effeminate!

June 15, 2010

Pillar-Boxes(Post-Boxes) are Effeminate! IN the year 1892 the Boers  debated in their Parliament in Pretoria as to whether they should erect pillar-boxes. A great many members objected to them- and said they were extravagant and effeminate.   One man (Mr. Talgaard) said, ‘He could not see why  people wanted to be always writing letters.    He wrote [...]

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Nothing new under the sun..

June 12, 2010

This from a 120 -year old magazine…things haven’t changed much….

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