Zeppelin!

FUNNY BIT…

This cracked me up. If you haven't figured out by now - the book I'm working on takes place in 1904 and has something to do with the World's Fair.

An ALA MEETING FROM 1904!

I cracked up when I read the bit about "morbid trash." This was from a meeting of the American Library Association at the St. Louis World's fair in 1904. "40 delegates were present."

This is an ad from 1904. Huh?

I wonder if that's where the saying "getting plastered comes from. Ha!

FROM 1904

INTERESTING ARTICLE ON "AIRSHIP"

I know, I know… I need to post! I'm almost done with the book I'm working on so then I can get back to it. I'm sure by the time I do all of my readers will be gone. Sigh.

Anyway, I'm going to start a clipping file for the unrelated interesting articles I find while doing research. Here's one:

holiday card

I'm so sorry I haven't posted in FOREVER. I have a deadline! I promise I'll be better… in a week!

In the meantime, I can't stop laughing and looking at this:

http://www.thebos.co/p/09IAPX&ref=fb

http://www.thebos.co/p/09IAPX&ref=fb

Penguin Publishing has been really clever this year! All of the digital cards, honestly, I think are kind of impersonal and boring but they have taken digital and used it in a creative and great way. Bravo!

A FEW THINGS FROM THE EARLY 1900s

This is the stuff that the winner of the 1904 Marathon used. It's considered an early "doping" method. Thomas Hicks would have been much better off if he hadn't taken it. 

Below is an ad I stumbled upon while looking for photographs of old bicycles. I can't imagine what it must have been like for ladies to exercise wearing any kind of corset!