TWEETS OF OLD

Prof. Watson has invented a date calculator that if properly handled will make him a fortune.

annek — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:48:44 +0000

-from the Mountain Echo newspaper, Feb, 13, 1891, Marion County, Arkansas

Women are more graceful than men because they have no pockets to put their hands in and acquire a slouchy gait while young.

annek — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:17:57 +0000

Mountain Echo newspaper, Marion County, Arkansas, 1886

Kronos, Percival, Constance, and Atlas are names being considered for the newly discovered ninth planet of the solar system.

annek — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:14:39 +0000

Published in the New York Herald, 1930, referring to a meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona at the Lowell Observatory.

The dead ‘mermaid’, recently cast up by the sea near Lewes,ought to be preserved in the interest of science.

annek — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:24:37 +0000

Thanks to www.newspaperabstracts.com

A Mermaid Found in Delaware.

Date: January 20 1880

Newspaper published in: St. Louis, Mo.

(From the Breakwater (Del.) Light)

On Tuesday of this week Capt. RAYMOND, keeper of Life-Saving Station No. 3, found on the beach what he supposed to be a mermaid which had been washed up from the sea. Capt. RAYMOND describes it as being about the size of a six year old boy, and to the middle or waist of the body resembling a boy in every particular. He says that its face, head, neck, arms and bust, as well as its hair, were similar in appearance to those of a human being. There were no fingers on the hands, but a coarse, moppy hair like the frizzled end of a whalebone, supplied their place. The lower portion of the body, from the middle or waist downward, resembles that of a shark, the tail being covered with a hairy substance similar to that of the hands. Capt. FOWLER says that the “tarnal critter” came there for no good, and it betokens a terrible shipwreck and fearful loss of life, which is soon to happen on that part of the coast.

Sam McElwrath had stepped out doors for a smoke and heard a would-be thief calling his hog in a very low tone.

annek — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:57:38 +0000

-from the Dresden Enterprise, November 27, 1903, Dresden, Tennessee

Jacob W. Walk, jr., is the owner of a duck with three legs. Where is Barnum ?

annek — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:43:25 +0000

-from the Columbia Spy, July 14, 1888, Washington Borough, Pennsylvania

Stop a moment and consider how many unnecessary things you say in a day.

annek — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:56:52 +0000

-from the Washington Democrat, Washington, Iowa, 1902

WOMAN APPEARS IN COURT IN “PANTS”!

annek — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:51:50 +0000

WOMAN APPEARS IN COURT IN “PANTS”!

In Judge Yager’s court this morning was the first woman to visit the court attired in the new style of garmenture. She was Mrs. Pearl Crouch, who offered the use of her automobile to convey some witnesses down to appear before the grand jury, among them her sister. Mrs. Crouch wore a suit built on the style of the soldiers uniform trousers during the war, only they were made of a neat pattern of wool. The suit included coat and trousers and was evidently new. She attracted considerable attention, as most of the men had not yet seen any woman so clad, on the streets and in public places, such as a court room. The style, it was explained, was one that they would probably see a great deal more of in the course of time, and they might even expect to see women wearing knickerbockers! -from the Alton Evening Telegraph, February 25, 1922

Julius Goodluck had the misfortune to lose part of a thumb when it became entangled with the cut-off saw Wednesday morning.

annek — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:10:52 +0000

-from the Ferndale Record, Ferndale, Washington, 1903

A Chicago woman has been arrested for highway robbery. No proper young man now ventures to appear on Chicago streets without a chaperone.

annek — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:49:13 +0000

-from The Newton Press, Jasper County, Illinois, February 15, 1888