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Newspapers, now suffering a technological inferiority complex, weren't always so apologetic. The New York Public Library has a wonderful collection of confident posters, promoting newspapers such as the Sunday Herald and the New York Times, from the turn of the century. The issue of the Times here featured offers a selection of stories with a definite air of its current Sunday Styles section—except for a fascination with British aristocracy now superseded by Hamptons plutocrats. The pitch for a story about the market for heiresses in Britain—A Matrimonial Slave Mart—is more lascivious than the uptight Times would now allow. After the coverlines comes an awesomely cocky pitch: "Many Other Features Equally Good."
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"Many Other Features Equally Good" will win an Open Caption one day.
Terrific!
"Many Other Features Equally Good" is one of my best lines with women.
Racy stuff for 1895.
"Many Other Features Equally Good, including the Metropolitan Section, Creationism Times, Horses & Carriages, Betrothals, Transactions Under A Buttonwood Tree Day, the Half-a-Fortnight In Review and Sports."
That dandy is going to have a sick pheasant dinner tonight.
@fiveinchtaint: In happier times, there were quail to shoot.
The illustrator forgot the "KA-BLAM!" onomatopaeic bubble.
a matrimonial slave mart: I'm looking for a new female writer to join gawker (nick denton craigslist ad)
fair adirondak dianas: nick denton launches a site for country lesbians
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a study in rattlesnakes: come on! too easy!
@fiveinchtaint: Mayhap some jam and wheat biscuits for after? Mercy me, we will feast tonight, children!
Strangely, the byline on that first article is "Miss Maureen Dowd."
The plutocracy just isn't the same anymore.
There is a bit of history chronicled in this illustration: on Nov. 17, 1895, Mr. Henry James Thibodeau VI launched the first-ever intercontinental ballistic missile from his chimney. It landed safely in Canada.
I'd like to announce the launch of my new blog: whatleadinggermansthink.com
@CodePink: Huzzah!
@CodePink: Perchance thou likest thine game be dredged in egg and flour?
"Fair Adirondack Dianas" sounds a little more NY Observer than NYT.
[radaronline.com]
Leading Germans prefer the Post over the Daily News 4 to 1.
Features equally good as the study in rattlesnakes?! I'm getting the Vapors!
There's no mention of Michaelmas! Even back then the New York Times was run by pagans.
@lawyergay: Do this. Now.
@the supergoddess: "Many Other Features Equally Good" - Nick Denton, on Kotaku and Jalopnik.
The inside jacket for the caption is priceless:
"Phineas M. Butterworth displays the newest fall hunting weapon: The 8 foot long barreled shotgun. Here he blows a bald eagle in twain. No longer will your missus and weeans be bothered by this menace of the skies. We all remember the sad bald eagle aduction of the Jewess baby Meier last autumnal equinox. Now you may stroll through central park or even in the wilds of Broncks farm in relative safety from avian assaults. This new weapon is available for a sawbuck and can be purchased at any local habadashery, cobbler or vintner in the city. Or one can have it shipped for an extra sixpence.
Mr. Butterworth's sporran is made of 100% snow owl and is sold separately.
It also included an article from a leading New York Doctor: "Leeches: The Cure For Everything"
Here's the link:
[query.nytimes.com]
@lawyergay:
Parody requires wit.
@BullfightsOnAcid: Also in the issue: "Mercury: Not Just for Hats"
I've posted this before, but the headline's just too golded. From 1895:
A SENSATION EXPLODED.; No Truth In the Story of an "Orgy" by Republican Legislators.
[query.nytimes.com]
@adminslave: And! Absinthe And Gumdrops - Not Just For Grownups Anymore!
Yo, the Sunday funnies back then were WACK! All Prince Valiant and shit.
@BettyCrocker: "The Galloping Consumption: Tragic, But Surprisingly Good for the Complextion!"
Wharton's Buccaneers treats the subject of American heiresses seeking titles & marriage in England.b
@adminslave: Nothing like a little TB to get that perfect porcelin look.
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@BettyCrocker: Hee!
@adminslave: @BettyCrocker: you two are very good at this! ha!
@BettyCrocker: don't forget the spleen, as in "vapours of."
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@lawyergay: I believe that I would thoroughly enjoy such thing. Just as long as we don't progress to whatleadingfrenchpeoplethink.com.
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Counterpoint: Mary Wood Allen, M.D., Superintendent of the Purity Department of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, notes that 'the most genuine love between a husband and a wife existed in the lofty sphere of platonic embrace.'" [www.cwrl.utexas.edu]
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