Curious Bygone Days

Interesting items from the past

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Argosy, January 20 1923.

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Harper's Weekly, May 25, 1901

At The Riding Academy Drawn by Max Klepper

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Short story from the Sunday Detroit Free Press, December 10, 1933.

Art by G. Baudrard

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Interior illustration from The Detroit Free Press for the short story Honor Among Woman by George Gibbs.

Could not read the artist's name.

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Short story published in the Sunday Detroit Free Press for November 26, 1933.

Cover art by G. Baudrard, about whom I could find nothing, not even the first name.

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The Detroit Free Press weekly short story.

Sunday, December 3, 1933.

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For the record, scrofula is a bacterial infection of the lymph nodes in the neck, most commonly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, leading to painless swelling and sometimes fluid drainage. Today, it is mainly treated with antibiotics and not soda pop syrup.

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Mmmm! Nettles!

You can't even get that at Whole Foods now.

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Harper's Weekly, May, 23 1863

Major-General George Stoneman, U.S.A.

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Harper's Weekly, May 22, 1886

A mounted sword contest at San Francisco -- Drawn by Thure de Thulstrup from Photographs

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Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1907

William Jennings Bryan and Uncle Sam

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Art by C. D. Williams from The American Magazine, 1935.

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The Cat’s Meow! from Ginger Stories, 1930.

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The All-Story, June 1913

241 · The Black Comet · J. Earl Clauson 347 · Friends 348 · Hypnotizing Horsford · Henry P. Dowst 354 · The Beautiful World · William Cullen Bryant 355 · A Daughter of Tumult [Part 1 of 2] · Crittenden Marriott 378 · Courtship · Anon. 379 · The Custom of the Country · Con Murray 386 · Mischief-Makers · Anon. 387 · The Mastodon-Milk-Man [Part 1 of 3] · C. MacLean Savage 407 · Treasure · John Dryden · 408 · The Heart-Eaters · Donald Francis McGrew 416 · King and Man [Part 3 of 4] · Mary Linda Bradley 432 · Mr. Butterfield’s Treat · Frank Condon 437 · John Goes Down to the City [Part 2 of 2] · S. B. Dinkelspiel 451 · An Errant Elephant · T. Bell 459 · The Detector · Elford Eddy 466 · Spawn of Infinitude · Edward S. Pilsworth 474 · Battle of Hohenlinden-1800 · Thomas Campbell 475 · All-Story Table-Talk · [The Editor]

I like that he’s looking at the tiger like it’s trying to sell him Amway or something.

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“Charge of the Iron Brigade near the Dunker Church” at the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. Painting by Thure de Thulstrup

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Harper's Weekly, November 23, 1872

The Insult Returned

"Men and Brethren!" The Cincinnati Convention has proved a Fiasco, and it did not name the Next President."