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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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RIP Everett True's prize chicken (September 29, 1921) (lemmy.world)
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Printed 103 years ago today in the Kenosha Telegraph-Courier. Image brightness/contrast edited, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

A couple interesting articles elsewhere on the page where this was printed:

  • "Palestine Population Muchly Decreased"
  • "Cancer Cure is Being Formulated"
  • "England Reaches End of Tether: Minister of the Colonies Declares that England Will Offer Nothing More to Ireland."
  • edit: also a picture of Margaret Smith Wilkerson who sounds like a fascinating person
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

The more things change...

[–] odium@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago

Read through the cancer one, looks like it was the discovery of radiotherapy.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

almost 40 000 rubles for a dollar!