Source of B&W image (in back page advert section).
If this ad were selling bottled elk urine, I'd buy the stuff. Luckily, the product actually sounded beneficial.
Source of text.
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Source:
The Western Gazette (Apr 15, 1905)
TO PREVENT BURIAL ALIVE
A LADY'S REMARKABLE REQUEST.
"Pray come immediately: Miss Cobbe seriously ill." A telegraph form bearing this message and addressed to Dr. Walter R. Hadwen, of Gloucester, was always kept upon the desk of the late Miss Frances Power Cobbe.
Miss Cobbe had a dread of being buried alive, and Dr. Hadwen, who arrived after she had passed away, superintended the carrying out of the solemn charge laid upon her medical attendant in her last will and testament.
This charge was "To perform on my body the operation of completely severing the arteries of the neck and windpipe so as to render any revival in the grave absolutely impossible."
Here's the
wikipedia entry about the woman in question, though it doesn't mention her postmortem request.
Did you know that when you die, your soul goes to a new life on Mars?
You can read all about it
right here.
Here's what happens when the new soul first arrives.
Here's a little scholarly perspective.
Source.
A silent film from 1907 featuring surreal acrobatic maneuvers.
From
The Washington Post - Oct 29, 1905: The Parisian thief Everard thought he had figured out the perfect crime. He only robbed beggars, and only those who were secretly wealthy — knowing they would be reluctant to report the crime since to do so they'd have to reveal their own fraud.
His strategy went wrong when during one of his robberies he ended up killing two men, thereby making himself wanted for murder.
Sounds like it could be the plot for a movie. Though it makes me wonder how many beggars are there really who are secretly wealthy. Beggars who are working scams by faking injuries, disabilities, etc? Definitely. But ones who are squirreling away millions? I always assumed that was a bit of an urban legend. Not that I'm an expert on beggars, however.
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Surely one of the most enjoyably odd of the classic newspaper comic strips was Winsor McCay's famous
LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND.
Many of the strips are finally available online
at this site.
Of course, if you desire glorious hardcopy, there are plenty of books too.
They get your loved ones in the ground in a third of the time!
From the
Washington Post - Apr 21, 1907.
"The action of certain foods in influencing the formation of the features has been watched, with highly interesting results. The growth of the chin has been discovered to bear a very striking relation to the amount of starch consumed, and particularly when the starch takes certain forms or is combined with other properties....
It has been shown, and seemingly conclusively, that a flesh or greatly mixed diet promotes angularity in the face generally, while the nourishment obtained from a single article, commonly of a starchy nature, coarsens the features. Thus we have the potato lip, the oatmeal lip, the maize lip."
From
Fauconberg, W. (1905). "The effect of diet and climate on the face." The Strand Magazine: 418-423.