100 years ago today: A 2/1
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
United States
February 23, 2021 12:59pm CST
This was borrowed from the The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, February 23, 1921, Image 1 found on chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Today's installment is a 2 for 1 from me. Do you see the comic? that was my main focus. It's peculiar to me to see a woman reading "Home Building." Now, maybe this is more about home management than it is about construction, but I thought it was an odd sight for a 1921 newspaper.
The man looking at gardening didn't surprise me though.
To the right is a little news blurb about a poor infant. It seems the mother suffocated the poor darling. The poor mother though! Not that what she did wasn't wrong (because it most certainly was) but I bet she suffered from Post Partum or something of the like.
What do you think of these?
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@Chellezhere (5363)
• United States
23 Feb 21
1921 was the year my maternal grandmother, the youngest of my grandparents was born (the other three were born in 1914, 1915, and 1920). Gram was a change of life baby. Her parents were born in 1878 and 1883. They married in 1903, and were dirt poor. At some point, years before Gram was born, her father brought home a vacuum cleaner for her mother. Their conversation went something like this.
Eliza: What is that?
Howard: A vacuum cleaner, Dear.
Eliza: What's it do?"
Howard: It sweeps dirt off the floor.
Eliza: But, that's what the broom is for.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
Aww, now that's a cute little story! My great grandmother always used a broom to do her floors. It didn't matter that she could afford a vacuum, she always swept the floors. Her son (my grandfather) will sweep the floors too instead of using the vacuum.
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@Chellezhere (5363)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I use both. And, when it comes to mopping the floors, I prefer to get down on my hands and knees and scrub them with rags instead.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
23 Feb 21
@Chellezhere I've done the scrubbing method before too. I like doing that under our kitchen counters because I feel I can get to it better.
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@LindaOHio (157506)
• United States
24 Feb 21
I wonder why the name of the cartoon is Spring Fiction? That was a horrible story about the woman suffocating her baby.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
24 Feb 21
I was kind of wondering why it was called Spring Fiction too. Yeah it was a horrible story.
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