Featured Old newspaper

Not sure if this is of interest to anyone. Just thought Id post it in case anyone wanted a look. I bought a large gaudy Welsh jug a couple of weeks ago and it was stuffed full of newspaper. I took it out and they are dated to the late 1940s and from the South West area. Some fascinating stories and adverts.

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Haha! "Wake up your liver bile!". Will get right on that, sir!

 

UK newspaper from the tag ends of WWII. Very cool.

 

Yeah some of the social themes and attitudes towards good health in it are fascinating. And the bit about Nazis being taken to trial too.

 

Vicks still reigns supreme!

 

My beloved grandmother swore by Vicks. When she passed we found a box full of the blue glass jars (remember those?) . Who knows why she saved them. I can sill smell that stuff !

 

Thanks that is cool.
Yes we had Vicks Vapo Rub.

 

I HAVE Vicks! Nothing works as well as a slathering of Vicks from the neck to the chest, cuddled up with an old, soft buttoned-up shirt. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

 

The smell still makes me sicker. Or just sick. Eucalyptus and menthol

 

Amusing. I have an interesting (to me anyway) old newspaper story. A few years ago a bought a NW Coast model canoe. It had some extra parts - harpoons and such - which were a bit delicate, so a former owner had cut up an old newspaper and fashioned it into a little storage thingy for them. Upon inspection, the newspaper was from the day Elvis Presley died, and they'd cut up the article about his death.
Not Elvis fans, I guess.

 

Thankfully everyone saved that one and it's not worth a pile. Sounds like you ran into some Pat Boone fans.

 

I had a Frankoma cornucopia planter the tail of which was stuffed with a magazine ad for a 1950 Buick Roadmaster convertible:

 

Intact, the ad would be worth more than the vase these days.

 

I suppose that people who would use newsprint in a context such as these could be thinking of it as a sort of time capsule, hoping someone at some future time will see the paper and be curious.

 

Incredible! The newsprint was so well preserved. This is rare. Newsprint usually deteriorates quickly. I wonder where the newspaper has been all these years? The oldest newspapers available to me date back to the 1990s. But when I last saw them, those newspapers were already in worse condition than yours.

 

Maybe more modern newspaper has a higher acid content so self destructs. I agree that its in very good condition though.

 

That, or maybe the stories themselves have become more acidic.

 

:O

 

Its funny that someone should comment on this today. This morning, a young contractor was removing the legacy fire alarm panel where I work and found an old newspaper behind it used as packing material. It was from 2005, the year that the fire alarm panel was installed. He was fascinated by it. I quipped about it having a page 3 so he asked me when page 3s began in newspapers. I said I couldn't remember. They have had nudity in newspapers for as long as I remember in the 1980s, up until the mid nougties perhaps. I guess it started not long before the 1980s as before that it would have been deemed very promiscuous to display nudity so readily. Now it is deemed unacceptible for quite the opposite. Its considered demeaning. Just a reflection on how society changes. It will be interesting to see how social values change over the next 30 years, if I make it so far.