Twentieth Century
The Germ-Hun
With thanks to Lawrence Person.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 11, 2020 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Hygiene, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, War, Reader Recommendation, Europe, Twentieth Century
Henry the Home Run Chicken
No explanation available.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 03, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, Tourists and Tourism, Natural Wonders, Twentieth Century
Muffin the Mule
Non-talking puppets with uninterrupted narration by a weird lady: pure kiddie gold!Or, as the urban legend has it: "There! That oughta hold the little bastards!"
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 30, 2020 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
Forkola Jell
"Old Doc Forkola" is a most unfortunate moniker. But was there anything that Forkola Jell couldn't do? Or should we ask, Was there anything that Forkola Jell could do?!?
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 17, 2020 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Twentieth Century
Jerry McSafety
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 11, 2020 -
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Category: Police and Other Law Enforcement, PSA’s, Puppets and Automatons, Twentieth Century
S.S.S. Tonic
Created by Charles Swift, this patent medicine is still for sale today. (Two separate links in that last sentence, if you're interested in following them!) And yet for some reason they make no claim about "purifying and invigorating polluted blood" or "inherited taints."
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 15, 2020 -
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Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Background Music and Sound Effects for Your Home Movies
Listen to it here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 11, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Special Effects, Twentieth Century
Alligator Joe’s
Florida alligator farms as tourist attractions are legendary and well known. One of the first such was Alligator Joe's.Here is a long read about the place.
And after the images is the account of one fellow who almost did not return from a visit to Joe's.
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 09, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Regionalism, Tourists and Tourism, Twentieth Century
Cottolene
As the Wikipedia page tells us:Cottolene was a brand of shortening made of beef suet and cottonseed oil
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 07, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Very Large Circus Performers of Yesteryear
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 05, 2020 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Twentieth Century, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
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