Category: Culture

We all love our shoes, whether we buy and wear them for comfort or for fashion. Shoes are also weirdly steeped in numerous superstitions. A…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was deep into the spirit world. What he tried to do might seem kind of silly…

You are flushing gold down that toilet, and I am not talking about dropped earrings and wedding rings. I’m talking about your pee: that stuff…

This one newspaper article from 1903 about a mummy discovery in cliff dweller territory hits upon several sensitive topics: the raiding of artifacts that belong…

I would love to be able to poke fun of this 1911 beauty article on how to get perfect shoulders, but I just read up…

At first I thought this article written in 1912 to be a bit over the top. Germs in the dust? Prevent illness by wearing slippers?…

In 1911, a Kansas newspaper published an article about fingernail readings. It is not something I have ever heard of before, except for reading the…

Halloween used to be a great time for games and telling fortunes. Children, teenagers, and even the adults got in on the fun. The needle…

While I absolutely love the smell of oranges, I have never taken an orange bath. While the article below was published in 1915, a quick…

Sluggard wakers used to be those people who would wake up the sleepers in church. While I can’t imagine much sleeping going on inside a…