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 owls. Show all posts

Showing posts with label owls. Show all posts

Sunday, May 18, 2008

An Unpleasant Sound

1895 Short Story of the Civil War Told by an Old Soldier. "I was certainly more or less scared a number of times when I was in the army...

Saturday, March 15, 2008

An Engineer's Experience

1902 "The superstition about owls is a wonderful thing," said an old railroad engineer, "and if I had not been inclined to be...

Friday, July 13, 2007

Owls Well Equipped by Nature

1919 Simple Explanation of Remarkable Sense of Hearing Possessed by the Owl It Is held by naturalists that in order to capture its prey the ...

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

The Haunted Maintop – Fright Aboard An English Ship

1889 How a Talkative Parrot Frightened the Tars of An English Ship Talking about ghosts, writes a correspondent of the Sheffield (Eng.) Tele...

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