High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, May 17, 1936
Just jumping around from one party to another…
A collection of old photographs, historic newspaper clippings and assorted excerpts highlighting the parallels of past and present. Featuring weird, funny and baffling headlines, articles and advertisements! Visit www.yesterdays-print.comĀ
High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, May 17, 1936
Just jumping around from one party to another…
High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, January 7, 1934
High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, October 1, 1933
Just as he’s about to sign on the dotted line a voice from inside the house says, “HENRY! Come in and shut that door!”
High-res
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, August 20, 1933
High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, June 25, 1933
“’Listen’, he says, ‘I don’t care how much other women expose themselves, but I don’t want my wife to make a show of herself!’ … Isn’t that like a man!”
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, March 4, 1939
High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, March 20, 1938
What if the world does know? …What do they care for the world? …Or anyone in it? …Except themselves?
High-res
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, March 20, 1938
We never met a Scot that wasn’t a self-appointed press agent for Scotland… and if he isn’t singing “Annie Laurie”, he’s singing about it being “a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht the noo ye ken”
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, August 5, 1939
Why get a beautiful new bathing costume all soaking wet when there’s not a man worth mentioning within a dozen miles?
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, September 9, 1939
Vacation Post-Mortems: Two weeks vacation at a hotel has spoiled many a well-trained husband…. temporarily.
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, September 30, 1939
A Policeman’s Lot: …and when he does make an arrest the good citizens often make him feel like a hard-hearted villain.
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, September 30, 1939
Optimists: Some lady optimists have an abiding faith in their ability to look stunning no matter how comic the hat… and the funny part of it is… they can and they do.
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, September 30, 1939
Optimists: There’s the one who, no matter how he mixes his alibis, always expects to get away with it.
“Good newsh, m’dear! Doctor says George passhed th’ crishis t’night, thanksh t’ me!”
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, February 25, 1939
It isn’t so much dumbness and a lack of card sense that ails wives… it’s their feet that are giving them the devil.
High-res
The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, February 18, 1939
Paying Up: “Here’s the egg I borrowed and - er - could you lend me your vacuum cleaner? … Mine’s bust.”