Children
Lunchroom Manners
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 27, 2014 -
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Category: Education, Food, PSA’s, Children, 1950s
Pierre and Candy
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 10, 2014 -
Comments (1)
Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Movies, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Children, 1960s
Anti-Terrorism Coloring Book
Published by Really Big Coloring Books, which is hoping they'll be included in schools' curricula throughout the country. Though so far, it appears, no schools have taken them up on the offer. More info at NY Daily News.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 03, 2014 -
Comments (9)
Category: Art, Terrorism and Terrorists, Children
Soapy the Germ Fighter
"Why...you're a living cake of soap!"
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 27, 2014 -
Comments (5)
Category: Hygiene, PSA’s, Children, 1950s
Flameproof Playsuits
Were children more prone to catch fire for no reason in the past during innocent recreational activities than they are today?
Original ad here. (Page 23.)
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 27, 2014 -
Comments (12)
Category: Death, Destruction, Disasters, Fashion, Comics, Children, 1940s
Catch Us If You Can
Proof that you do not need video games as flight simulators to encourage hijacking.Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 13, 2014 -
Comments (6)
Category: Crime, Flight, Children, 1940s
Playking Athletic Belt
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Wow, a sports girdle for fat boys! And in the last panel, it seems to have had the power to change Fatty's hair color as well!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 09, 2014 -
Comments (6)
Category: Sports, Children, 1950s, Obesity
Modern Sensibilites
The judge in a custody battle has cautioned dad not to use uppercase and large fonts when emailing the children. Apparently it is insensitive and makes the kids feel they are being yelled at. Poor little snowflakes.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 15, 2014 -
Comments (8)
Category: Children
The Rib of James V
Wikipedia page.
Doctor Robert Honeyman of Scotland left his son a human rib from King James V. Why? Well, wouldn't you?
To son Robrt [sic] Bruce Honeyman, 900 acres whereon testator resides, negroes (men Bob, John, boy Lewis, deaf & dumb woman Celia & her children Murvin & Beck), 2 work horses, 4 work oxen, 4 cows/calves, 20 sheep, all hogs, farming/kitchen utensils, all furniture in house, all books (except 10 vol to each dau [sic]), watch, guns, all medicines/surgical instruments, microscopes (except best in shagreen case to son), thermometer, diploma, human rib (of James V, King Scotland) in small trunk in chest...
Source.
More information:
Among the early settlers of Lauderdale County were Dr. Samuel and Cornelia C. (Honyman) Oldham; her father, Dr. Robt. Honyman [sic], was a noted physician and member of the royal navy, for many years surgeon of the "Portland," a ship of the line, that was sent to St. Helena in 1771, to await Capt. Cook's expected arrival from his first trip around the world, and convey his ship to England. He was also a direct descendant of the Dr. Honyman, who extracted by command, the fifth rib from the side of James V, King of Scotland, which rib was transmitted to him by his ancestors, and he by will to his only son, with the request, "that he will carefully keep the said rib, and carefully transmit it to his descendants."
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Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 18, 2014 -
Comments (6)
Category: Children, Parents, Sixteenth Century, Skulls, Bones and Skeletons
Zovello, The Bonomo Magic Clown
Given fezzes to wear, and a supply of taffy to eat, the children in the audience were still at a loss for having to watch the sub-Krusty antics of Zovello the Magic Clown.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 20, 2014 -
Comments (6)
Category: Clowns, Television, Children, 1940s, 1950s
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