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The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, July 20, 1904
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The Foolish Almanak, 1906
(From Wikipedia: Anthony Comstock was a United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality. The terms “comstockery” and “Comstockism” were used for his extensive campaign to censor materials he considered indecent and obscene, such as birth control information.)
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El Paso Herald, Texas, February 2, 1928
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The Footman’s Directory, and Butler’s Remembrancer, London, 1823
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman’s guide to domestic happiness, 1824
She who throws off her modesty either in her words or her dress, will not be thought to set much value upon it in her actions.
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The Behaviour Book: A Manual for Ladies, 1853
…and invite her to stay for dinner, to stay all day, and to “say for ever,” adding, “I try to be polite.”
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A woman is arrested due to her immodest bathing suit - but does not go easily! Chicago, 1922
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Three ladies measure a man’s bathing suit - homage to the modesty laws that plagued women less than ten years earlier, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1930
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But now when Grandma calling goes
She wears her dear grand-daughters hose,
Nor do her eyebrows shocked-ly lift
That they were some guy’s Christmas gift.
Harrisburg Telegraph, Pennsylvania, 1924