Robert Savage, former Yale Football star, opens his veins and kills himself because he could not gain the attention of film starlet Clara Bow. About the suicide, Bow says: “Men do not commit suicide by slashing their wrists, they use pistols.” Her countenance was cold and undisturbed.

Man looking for a wife in 1865.

A banner announcing the opening of Great Dog Butchery, a canine butchery in Paris, France, 1910

Sorry Timmy, you didn't use Johnson & Johnson products to treat that cut so we had to CUT YOUR ARM OFF

1957

Gay Boy Tobacco, 1890

Miss Correct Posture winners, Chicago Chiropractic Convention, May 1956. Contestants were typically judged on beauty and poise, posture, and x-rays to evaluate their spinal structure

In this 1950s ad, tacos are being described as "Mexican Sandwiches "

Teens out of control circa 1900

After Adolf Hitler, a leader of a small extremist political party in Germany, was released from prison in 1924, the New York Times reported he would most likely retire to private life and return to Austria

The Ku Klux Klan gifts a radio to a 107 year old former slave and his wife for Christmas, to show that "The Klan believes in white supremacy and segregation. The Klan also believes in treating Negroes fairly and honestly" 1948

Did not have the #WhiteSox broadcast mentioning Doris Day on my bingo card

Article quoting John Harvey Kellogg (the brother of the cereal magnate WK Kellogg) making a prediction about what babies will look like in 2012.

The sleepy desert town of Las Vegas, Nevada is seeing an unprecedented volume of tourism as up to five cars per day pass through the city now, and sometimes a bus. The population of Las Vegas is only 2,400, and they have no clue how they will accommodate so many visitors. 1926

Stegosaur, who lived in Utah ages ago, is a freak of nature 1912

The University of Notre Dame, Indiana, conducts a poll of 662 male students, asking one question: “Would you marry a girl who drinks?” University officials are alarmed that 357 respondents (53.9%) are willing to have a girl who has let alcohol louch her lips. 1926

The Daily Sentinel predicts that by the year 2000 the average woman will be 6 foot tall 1950

A kid in 1948 seeing a TV for the very first time

People gather to watch a horse diving act in Pueblo, Colorado. 1905. Horse diving was a big hit in the 19th century, featuring horses (sometimes with a rider) leaping from towers into water pools from as high as 60 feet

A cartoon about a hypothetical "pocket telephone“ 1919

Judy Garland and George Murphy doing a variation of the Bellamy salute during the pledge of allegiance, 1940 It was done away with in 1942 for...obvious reasons

Thought #booksky may enjoy this greeting card from the 1920s

In 1936, the "dog sack" was invented to keep cars clean while traveling with pets

Hot idea! Drink hot Dr Pepper with a slice of lime 1969

"How to tell Japanese from Chinese" 1941

Desirable traits in women - socially and eugenically. 1939.

Rascal contemplating mischief C 1900, Ontario, Canada

I will say that I do prefer Bluesky over X in terms of functionality, but I will say that one thing X has as opposed to Bluesky is the ability to filter your home feed by category (so politics, sports, etc.) I would probably spend more time on here if my whole home page wasn't doomer political shit

DOES THE BICYCLE MAKE WOMEN CRUEL? 1897

Girls can't resist this 'Kiss Me Necktie' as it GLOWS in the DARK! 1945

Gilbert's U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory Children's Set, Supplied with Real Radioactive Materials, 1950s

Teenagers' marriage criteria from Progressive Farmer, October, 1955

In 1914, Life magazine drew what they thought people would be wearing in the 1950s

Men used to be sober, chivalrous and strong. Now, in the year 1622, they are ruined forever.

Japanese Hunting License, 1941

HEFTY GIRLS WANTED FOR POLICE FORCE (must be fairly good looking). London Metropolitan Police, 1930s

The Pickle Sisters, a vaudeville group in the 1920s

Electricity was new once. These signs were mostly in hotel rooms and other public places.

An incredibly popular wine brand in the 1800s was “Vin Mariani” Pope Leo XIII LOVED it and appeared in a couple of advertisements for the brand, and Thomas Edison credited it for allowing him to stay up and work late into the night The wine contained 6mg of cocaine per fl oz of wine

In the early 1920s, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to private companies without competitive bidding. In return, he accepted what were basically bribes, “loans” worth hundreds of thousands of dollars Humans have always been greedy

"Am I Blue" Hoagy Carmichael with Lauren Bacall, 1944 From the movie "To Have and Have Not"

Not that I need it But picked this up at a local book sale Written and printed in 1955 #booksky

Your darn tootin’ my dad smokes a Marlboro 1950

"I'm just waiting for my mother" Coca Cola commercial, 1940s