Antique Clippings

Antique humor and clippings, randomly discovered ephemera and interesting things! A lot of the things here are from before 1950, maybe way before. There will be things not politically correct today, ethnic humor, and enemies called names. The past is very messy.

Showing posts with label fortunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fortunes. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Gypsy Is "Sot" On Him

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1901 Young Man Who Has a Wild Time With a Fair Romany Janesville, Wis., April 25. — A well-known young man of this city has applied to the p...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Glossomancy New Science

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1914 Reads Character by the Shape of the Tongue PARIS, Aug. 1. — Glossomancy, or reading the character by the shape of the tongue, is a new ...

Bowlegged Fellows Are Not Likely to Face Poverty

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1919 Bad Luck for Turn-In Toes There is an old saying that a bandy legged boy will never lack warm stockings, meaning that he will never be ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Significance of the Fingers

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1874 Each finger, and the mount at the base of it, is named from a planet. In the normal hand the second finger is the longest, the third th...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Rag Man Finds His Occupation Gone

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1910 Rag Man's Business Has Dwindled to Vanishing Point "Rags, bones, old iron!" is a cry not nearly so familiar to the childr...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

How to Find Out Whom Any Given Person Will Marry

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1876 It doesn't require any astrologer, or medium, or gipsy with a dirty pack of cards. It is very simple, lies in a nutshell, and can b...
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