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Don’t Eat Your Greens
This public service announcement is from the February 14, 1884 edition of The Chatham Record. Apparently in the late nineteenth century even your wallpaper could kill you. Poisonous Wall Paper The...
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Cut Your Losses
From the front page of the February 23, 1882 issue of The Chatham Record. Feel your pockets after even saying hello to a shrewd pedler [sic]. If you feel any coins at all, count them. A Shrewd Pedler...
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Judge much?
This editorial(?) from the June 18, 1903 edition of The Chatham Record reveals more about its author than it does the opposite sex. Reminds me of certain people I know (your blogger meekly raises his...
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Priorities!
From the August 9, 1186 issue of The Chatham Record (reprinted from Albany Argus). I get the feeling the author never actually asked about the price of rum, but he and anyone else within earshot got it...
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Never Blog Hungry
For whatever reason, everything but the recipe section is bouncing off my forehead. This particular recipe was popular enough to warrant space on the front page of March 10, 1904’s edition of The...
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Our Dear Deer
This reprint from Young Folks appeared on the front page of the May 8, 1884 edition of The Chatham Record. There is no mention of how Deer’s life ended, but he certainly seems well-regarded. A...
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It’s pronounced “shahd-n-froi-duh”
Everyone has at least one “funny man” in their life. This reprint from the Chicago Sun appeared on the front page of the June 4, 1896 Chatham Record. He Caught the Funny Man. He was one of the “smart”...
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Fingers and Toes Are Really Quite Useful
As we approach this year’s Independence Day, let us count our blessings and digits. This poem, published on the front page of the July 2, 1903 edition of The Chatham Record takes a fatalistic...
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Sad Trombone Music
I get to the end of this article from the front page of the August 17, 1893 edition of The Chatham Record, and I imagine the protagonist turning toward the camera with his shoulders shrugged and lip...
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Supply and Demand
Show business has not changed a bit in one hundred years. Take for example this article from the September 24, 1903 edition of the Chatham Record: TALKS OF CIRCUS GERM. Veteran Showman Says There Is...
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