June 2013
June 23, 2013
June 22, 2013
Miss Treasury Department
Shown is Helen G. Sweeney who won the title of Miss Washington D.C. back in 1924. But she also served, more specifically, as Miss Treasury Department.
Apparently young women were chosen to represent all the various offices of the federal government. So in addition to Miss Treasury Department there was:
- Miss Bureau of Standards (Betty Grace Tucker)
- Miss Veterans Bureau (Elsie L. Schulze)
- Miss Commerce (Estelle Meisenheimer)
- Miss Navy (Etelka Kearney)
- Miss State Department (Adeline Shuler)
- Miss Post Office (Ellen S. Waller)
- Miss Department of Justice (Helen T. Gallagher)
- Miss Civil Service (Irma Beaver)
- Miss Labor (Margaret McKinley)
- Miss Bureau of Engraving (Elizabeth Thompson)
- Miss War Department (Pearl B. Henry)
- Miss Government Printing Office (Evelen M. Smith)
- Miss Agriculture (Jewell Sager)
- Miss Interior (Minnie Jean)
- Miss Federation (Margaret M. Mattare)
- Miss Interstate Commerce (Sarah M. Boyle)
- Miss U.S. Employee's Compensation Commission (Edith S. Webb)
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 22, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Government, 1920s
Mouth Guard Cleaners, Past & Present
The demure product of today versus the bold product of the past (1962). Which would you choose for your pressing oral hygiene & "mouthpiece filth" needs?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 22, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1960s
June 21, 2013
New Zealand Deer Cheese
New Zealand entrepreneur Graeme Shaw is starting the world's first commercial deer cheese operation. Milking the deer is apparently a bit of a challenge, but the cheese itself is said to taste good. I'd definitely give it a try. tvnz.co.nz
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 21, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Lampy, the Multimillion-Dollar Garden Gnome
Read about Lampy here.
More Gnome history here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 21, 2013 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Horticulture and Gardens, Foreign Customs, Europe, Nineteenth Century, Fictional Monsters
June 20, 2013
It Takes a Thief
Around here we like to laugh at thieves and applaud those who choose not to be victims.Here's one 'non-victim'.
Click here for the whole story.
Posted By: Expat47 - Thu Jun 20, 2013 -
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Category: Radio
Endless Toilet Bowls
Constantin Brancusi's 1938 sculpture "The Endless Column" is quite famous. So much so that, as the Box Vox blog points out, not one but TWO artists independently came up with the idea of paying homage to it by making endless columns of toilet bowls — Tim Thyzel using white ceramic bowls (2001) and Konstantin Bojanov using red, acrylic resin casts of toilet bowls (2008).
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 20, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Bathrooms
Life in America: 1933
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 20, 2013 -
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Category: Customs, 1930s, North America
June 19, 2013
Inhale Your Food
Any food that you can turn into a soup, you can inhale using "Le Whaf." It makes the experience of eating strongly resemble taking drags on cigarettes.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 19, 2013 -
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Category: Food
The Herriges Horror
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Human nature, good or evil, is invariant.
Read the whole story here, in a small book from 1870.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 19, 2013 -
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Category: Crime, Family, Horror, Nineteenth Century
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