The Star Press,
Muncie, Indiana, June 22, 1913
In the Year 2013
‘Tis said someday we will not kiss,
that no longer we’ll know the bliss;
for kissing is the cause of lots of disease.
In old books they’ll read about it,
they’ll find it used to make a hit,
but all will say “stand back there, please.”
A few daring ones will, perhaps,
get wise and don their thinking caps;
and they’ll wish there wasn’t such a law at all.
But it won’t matter what they say,
if they did they’d sure have to pay,
they’d find a poor excuse a mighty bum stall.
The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, June 29, 1913
Happy return, August 1945
The Wilkes-Barre Record, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1924
Oakland Tribune, California, February 8, 1953
Sounds like a recipe for an argument on the car ride home!
Stevens Point Daily Journal, Wisconsin, May 19, 1910
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 11, 1899
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 18, 1921
The Waco News-Tribune, Texas, October 19, 1921
Portsmouth Daily Times, Ohio, December 24, 1926
The Escanaba Daily Press, Michigan, April 28, 1937
Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1926
From Wikipedia:
Post Office is a kissing game played by boys and girls at parties. It has been referred to in United States popular culture since at least the 1880s.
The group playing is divided into two groups – typically a girl group and a boy group. One group goes into another room, such as a bedroom, which is called “the post office”. To play, each person from the other group individually visits “the post office”. Once there, they get a kiss from everyone in the room. They then return to the original room.
Once everyone in the first group has taken a turn, the other group begins sending members to the first room.
The Salem News, Ohio, December 28, 1921
The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, August 17, 1912
The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1909
St Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 12, 1907
St Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, September 11, 1907
St Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 16, 1907
High Point State Park, New Jersey, 1953
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