This stuff is mentioned in quite a few old stories, mostly for making gunpowder and causing impotence.
Gunpowder & Impotence would be a good name for a country album.
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You can really taste the mole asses.
Three ingredients: roasted wheat bran, wheat and molasses.
Postum was developed by C. W. Post, the Grape-Nuts guy.
Continue readingPlease don’t slug the excavator.
How Wheaties Became the ‘Breakfast of Champions’
Art by Irwin Caplan (“Cap”), illustrator/painter/designer/cartoonist. Wanna see his house?
Johnny Mize was a left-handed Hall of Famer. At last check, some of Johnny Mize’s baseball cards go for over $7,700 on eBay.
Continue readingWould you like to buy a monkey?
What was it like to get a monkey in the mail? Find out here!
Continue readingDon’t forget to burp’m.
A little bit on Fairman Wallace “Wally” Taber here and here. Dude studied photography with Ansel Adams.
The history of Tupperware parties. Did you know about Earl Tupper and his savior, Brownie Wise?
Continue readingThese Suds Ain’t Duds
This last Saturday was laundry day at the North Star Auction in Mandan, North Dakota.
Also, back in the day, laundry soap and dish soap were often the same soap.
Check out the sweet package art.
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Thank you, Ann and Bismarck Antique Mall, for thinking of me when you found this gem.
Johnny Gasparini would’ve gotten his two dollars on one of these.
Snow Bikes have been around in one form or another for 100 years or so.
The conversion kits cost a little bit more these days.
Continue readingJust Before Taps
The tent in the postcard photo might be a WWI-era American Expeditionary Force Pyramidal Tent, if you happen to be interested.
Continue readingIf you drink decaffeinated, you might be a…
