(This story from an 1882 newspaper would probably not be printed in today. It really reveals what men thought about women at the time. I really don’t know what to think about it except to say I’m glad I’m living in today’s world) It has been rather broadly suggested that pretty girls cause most of […]
Tag: 1880’s
Put-in-Bay, Ohio has been a popular resort for years as these photographs show
Put-in-Bay is a village located on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. The population was 138 at the 2010 census. Put-in-Bay is located 15 miles northwest of Sandusky. The name “Put-in-Bay” originally only referred to the bay itself. In the latter-1700s, the schooners sailing on Lake Erie, would “put in” […]
It was the 5th largest industry in the USA but it has almost disappeared. Do you know what it was?
APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[ TooManyRequests|The request was denied due to request throttling. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API. ] At the peak of popularity, this industry employed over 100,000 people and was in almost every city in the country. Now there is little evidence that it even […]
The way to a man’s heart – good pie-making? This author from 1886 thinks so..
This amusing story is from an 1886 newspaper and reveals much about how women were viewed in the day….. Treat the pie with respect The pie has sometimes been treated with disrespect. Its antiquity and high position on the bill of fare of this nation make the insult most atrocious. This sacriligious (sic) state of […]