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Doctors Wanted to End Kissing
1912 was the year when medical doctors were trying to get kissing outlawed. Not for religious reasons, but because they felt that kissing was gross….
Human Hair Gathered From The Sick And Dead
I have an aversion to human hair to begin with, but learning about the conditions in which human hair used to be harvested makes me…
Women’s Excessive Working Hours in the Laundries
In the early 1900s, people were expected to work up to and sometimes over 24 hours. Men and women had to fight to lower the…
10 Weird Superstitions Involving Your Shoes
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’s Spirit Radio
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…
A 1903 “Cure” For Insomnia
The medical discoveries and advice in the early 1900s flip-flops between scary and silly. I have seen everything from harvesting lightning to cure rheumatism to…
Labor Strikes 3000 Years Ago Same as Today
People have been waging labor strikes since, at the least, the time of the ancient Pharaohs. It was not something that was affiliated with a…
15 Incredibles Ways Urine Is Being Used For Beauty
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…
Women Tar Young Girl
I don’t care how “scandalous” a person is, no one deserves to be tarred, especially not an 18 year old young woman. Women Tar Young…
Husband Diagnosed With Leprosy and Wife Will Join Him on Leper Colony
In this article, found in a 1912 newspaper, a husband is believed to have leprosy. It was a frightening discovery at that time because there…
