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〜New AND improved〜
“It has been named ‘Billy Possum,’ and for the present is to be retained in Rebecca’s cage.”
“[S]aved from death by President Coolidge’s distaste for that particular delicacy.”
Re-printing a children’s poem called “Pumpkin Pie” by Mary Mapes Dodge.
“Squirming and crawling from place to place can do no good.” -Abraham Lincoln
A survey of 1913 reader-submitted menus for all three meals of the day.
“Saving, in the abstract, is, of course, a perfunctory process as compared with purposeful saving for a home…”
“[T]hat longing which exists in every human breast to be able to say: ‘This is mine.””
Introducing then-President Warren G. Harding’s 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration Week.
〜Discovering a children’s poem by a well-known American painter〜
〜Casey at bat again; will Casey get his revenge?〜
An 1895 promotion for a “fairy tricycle” in Harper’s Round Table.