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EnmebaraGuesser

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  • Glow with health using violet rays (1920 ish, through to 1960's)

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  • IKWYM about that kinda rush. I've read some very old things from 2-3500 BCE, translated into English of course from Sumerian or whatever original. It's weird, in a good way, to read the words of somebody who's been dead for multiple millennia. Like you said, we are them and they are us. You can see the worst of us and the best of us, in the worst of them and the best of them.

  • Glow with health using violet rays (1920 ish, through to 1960's)

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  • Haha thanks. The late 1800's and early 1900's is so fascinating to me. In some ways it's all very familiar, it's not like the year 700 where we can't even understand the language. But at the same time, so much of it feels just... weird.

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  • Those indoor tanners we have today are not great for people either! It's a tradeoff, it gives a tan, but also skin damage and premature aging.

    Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) [ ... from ... ] indoor tanning using tanning devices, is known to be a major cause of the three main types of skin cancer: ...

    The age at which someone begins indoor tanning has a known impact on the future risk of developing cancers. A 2012 analysis of epidemiological studies found a 20% increase in the risk of melanoma (a relative risk of 1.20) among those who had ever used a tanning device compared to those who had not, and a 59% percent increase (a relative risk of 1.59) among those who had used one before age 35.

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    Glow with health using violet rays (1920 ish, through to 1960's)

  • Ives Toys miniature railways (1911)

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    Ives Toys miniature railways (1911)

  • Sears Motor Buggy (1910 ish)

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  • Ditto. I've heard it was a huge problem for health, sanitation, and just the pure stink of it all! Example...

    In late nineteenth century, New York contained somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 horses. All transport, whether of goods or people, was drawn by horses, from fancy carriages pulled by the finest breeds, to cabs and horse trolleys and countless carts, drays, and wains...

    Each horse produced up to 30 pounds of manure per day and a quart of urine. All of this ended up in stables or along the streets. That added up to millions of pounds each day and over 100,000 tons per year (not to mention around 10 million gallons of urine).

    By the end of the 19th century, vacant lots around New York City housed manure piles that reached 40 or 60 feet high. It was estimated that in a few decades, every street would have manure piled up to third story levels.

    Streets covered by horse manure attracted huge numbers of flies. One estimate claimed that horse manure was the daily hatching ground for three billion disease spreading flies in the United States.

    It goes on about the problems of all the horses that were dying in the streets and their carcasses abandoned.

  • Sears Motor Buggy (1910 ish)

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  • Wild! Founded in 1899, and they specialize in roller bearings, so probably the same company from the ad. They split into two companies in 2014 according to wiki, and then there were mergers and stuff, so it's a little jumbled. But they still do bearings for modern vehicles.

  • Laughing Gas Exhibition (1845)

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  • I am impressed you found something like that!

    That caricature is ... wild! Looks like that was made in 1830, and this exhibition flyer in 1845. Imma bet the illustration was repurposed for this flyer without knowledge or permission. Especially since the 1830 illustration was from London, and the 1845 flyer seems to be from NY.

  • Sears Motor Buggy (1910 ish)

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  • Yeah that's what I got too with an inflation calculator.

    The Ford Model T started out more expensive than the Sears, at $780 in 1910, but Ford used mass production to drive the price down to $290 by the 1920's, a mere $5500 today.

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    Sears Motor Buggy (1910 ish)

  • Laughing Gas Exhibition (1845)

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  • Bizarre for sure. I can't understand the face area of it.

    Also it's a woman shown, but the fill text says the gas will be administered only to gentlemen of first respectability.

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    Asthma Cigarettes (6 and up)

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  • Oh wow. Good catch. I will update the post or remove it!

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    Asthma Cigarettes (6 and up)

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  • Ha, I didn't even notice that!

    I wonder if that escaped a proofread, or if the spelling has changed since the 1800's.

  • Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.works
    EnmebaraGuesser @piefed.ca

    Laughing Gas Exhibition (1845)

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    Wizard Oil (1864)