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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.com 

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 11, 1896

The room that you enter is vault-like and filled with coffins.

The undertaker-waiters call out in sad tones: “Welcome to death,” and “Choose your coffin.”

Having chosen your coffin and ordered your poison (probably beer), the waiter brings it to you, repeating some such formula as:

“Here is something to finish you off - a drink made from microbes and grave worms.”

All around you hear the undertaker-waiters repeating their dreadful phrases: “Welcome to death.” “Here is something to poison you.” “The dead cannot laugh.” “This will make you rot quickly.”

Some pictures of the Cabaret du Néant from around the web: 

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Bodies being recovered after the sinking of the SS Eastland on July 24, 1915, where 844 passengers and crew drowned after the ship rolled over while still tied to the dock on the Chicago River. Most of the passengers were employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works in Illinois, who were on their way to a company picnic in Indiana. Something happened on the river to draw the attention of passengers, who all went to port side to see. This caused to boat to list.