Many years ago I helped my oldest daughter's kindergarten teacher. She was sorting through her recently deceased friend's home - 80 years of accumulation. I agreed to help with the estate sale and came away with some old newspapers among other things. I've saved those papers all these years.
1919
Complexion Wash Made of the First Snow 1906
1908 Flea Removal
'It is a good idea to ask a man or boy to do this,
for you can then pin sticky fly-paper over this trousers and leggings.'
Thousand of women, who find their strength unequal to the demands upon it, need no further medicine than the relief from exhausting kitchen drudgery than a Kitchen Cabinet would bring.
'Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.'
Good. No guilt with the emphasis on the repose today
And the oldest document found
'This Fourth of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight... having borne an honorable part of us the service of the United States in suppressing the Rebellion and thereby maintaining the integrity of the Union the perpetuity of Republican Institution and the liberties and peace of the People.'
