Grave of James T. Farrell, creator of Studs Lonigan, at Calvary Cemetery, Evanston

My local market presents a lesson in applied economics. Would you like a 5-pound bag of potatoes for $1.99, or a 10-pound bag for...$1.99?

Possibly the most interesting person I've found an image for lately on Wikipedia. Float like a McButterfly...?

Stained glass in the Carry family mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery, Evanston

Grave of Jane M. Byrne, 50th mayor of Chicago, at Calvary Cemetery, Evanston

Grave of John P. Barrett, chief electrician at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, at Calvary Cemetery, Evanston

Carrie Henn missed the fourth grade to play Newt in Aliens. Now she teaches it. Among other anecdotes, she says Sigourney Weaver gave flowers to each of the marines after they got killed.

A Chilean pisco distillery was nice enough to put up a bunch of their ads on YouTube with Commons licenses, so I've been grabbing frames like this one (of actress Josefina Fiebelkorn) to add to Wikipedia articles. ¡Salud!

Headline from the front page of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, September 3, 1927 No link to the full story, as your headcanon version is probably better.

Tito Mattei at home in 1904

1925 Collier's magazine article on Walter Stanton, also known as The Giant Rooster

Artist, lawyer, and physician May Tower Bigelow, who served in the Colorado House of Representatives in 1919

Judge Orrin N. Hilton, who defended labor leaders such as George Pettibone, Vincent Saint John, and Joe Hill.

A. Quaintance? Really?

William Gray Evans, son of the namesake of Evanston, Illinois

A Subway Rush-Hour Crowd by Anton Otto Fischer

Jo Davidson with his statue of Robert M. La Follette in 1929

Probably metaphorical ad from Time magazine, February 24, 1930 Even here in the future, human fingers are still preferred for some tasks.

Grave of suffragist, philanthropist, and birth control pioneer Katharine Dexter McCormick at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago

Blanche Craven, Countess of Coventry and George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry

New York governor Al Smith demonstrating an unexpected talent

SKF had better keep Marko Ramius away from this one

Ad for the Burroughs Corporation, founded by William S's grandfather, from Time magazine, January 27, 1930

Liquidometer ad from Time, January 27, 1930

Visually striking and perhaps-unfortunately-captioned-but-not-actually-racial ad from Time magazine, January 27, 1930

Physical culture enthusiast Bernarr MacFadden (born Bernard McFadden, but he wanted his name to sound like a lion roaring), author of such books as The Virile Powers of Superb Manhood, Vaccination Superstition, Predetermine Your Baby's Sex, A Strenuous Lover, and Be Married and Like It.

SKF ad from Time, January 13, 1906

Ad for Spud cigarettes from Time magazine, January 6, 1930

Marshall Field's ad from Time magazine, January 6, 1930

Lillah McCarthy in 1904

Texaco ad from Collier's, April 25, 1925 Not sure I'd be bragging about that, but ok

Types of Russian Cavalry III – A Dragoon of the Line by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.)

A Stroke of Luck by George Denholm Armour

Harry Houdini in The Sketch, April 6, 1904

Types of Russian Cavalry II – A Cossack of the Line by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.)

Cartoon by David Wilson depicting Melton Prior and Frederic Villiers covering opposing sides of the Russo-Japanese War for The Illustrated London News

Types of Russian Cavalry I – A Railway Guard on the Manchurian Railway by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.)

Irene Vanbrugh as Stella de Gex in His Excellency the Governor, drawn by Mabel Lee Hankey

Cartoon by Frank Reynolds from The Sketch, March 23, 1904 HE: Do you understand this Tariff question? SHE: Well, no, but I'm awfully keen on Protection.

Mabel Love as Blossom in Humpty-Dumpty, drawn by Mabel Lee Hankey

Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, grandson of Rosina Doyle Wheeler and the "dark and stormy night" dude

Ellaline Terriss as The Queen in The Cherry Girl

British writer Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

Dewar's ad from The Sketch, March 16, 1904 Come to think of it, I haven't asked my GP what his whisky preferences are.

Sport in the Alps by George Denholm Armour

Actress Evelyn Beaumont photographed by Lallie Charles in 1904

Rachel Berridge, Countess of Clonmell, photographed by Esmé Collings in 1904

Lewis Waller in A Marriage of Convenience in 1904

Dewar's ad from The Sketch, March 2, 1904

"The Morning Budget": David Lloyd George and friend photographed by Ernest Herbert Mills in 1904