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.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

He Always Has a Passport

1895 H. L. Benson of Now York, according to a reporter of a St. Louis paper, takes pains to be always provided with a passport. He says that...

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Refuses Freedom for Prison Term

1920 ST PAUL, Minnesota. — Given his choice of freedom or an indeterminate sentence in the State reformatory by Judge Waite in Hennepin Coun...

Eugene Leroy Sought as Slayer of His Wife

1920 Arrest of Man in Mexico Seems to Solve Trunk Mystery. DETROIT, Michigan. — Eugene Leroy, sought as the slayer of Katherine Jackson Lero...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Peddler Recovers His Cash

1916 Identifies His Lost Roll by Odor of Onions. NEW YORK — The much-maligned onion is a good friend to Simon Silverman of Brooklyn, who dri...

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Missing Harry Potter May Be From Michigan

Illinois, 1918 H. L. Oldham Wires Red Cross Harry L. Oldham, formerly of Decatur but now of Charlevoix, Mich., has wired the Red Cross at De...

Sunday, May 6, 2007

African's Teeth Passport

1922 When a man of Central Africa is asked from where he comes his answer is a grin. This answer is perfectly satisfactory, because his teet...

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