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Children Should Be In Factories – Old-time Factory Cringe

I spend hours each day reading through the old newspapers and I am always finding articles that make me “what the hum” out loud. Earlier…

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Kids Project Make a Can Telephone from the 1930s

Being born in the seventies, I remember making these can telephones in school and at home for playtime with my friends. They are really simple…

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Kids Craft 1970s Wind Chime

The tinkling wind chime was a popular children’s craft project back in the 1970s. I was born in ’73 and I remember making this craft…

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Baby Auto Car Wood Plans From 1917

While reading through a newspaper published in 1917, we stumbled across this adorable plan and pattern for a wooden baby auto car. [1]

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The Dark Side of the Chicago Orphan Asylum

Would you dump your child into an orphanage? During the 1800s and early 1900s, it was not uncommon for poor parents to leave a child…

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Old Instructions on How to Make Sky Lanterns

Floating paper balloons or sky lanterns are popular in some areas, although I have to admit that I am scared that one would start a…

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1922 Account of Giving Children an Allowance

It is true that the children of nearly a decade ago were given allowances for household chores. Educators believed that giving children spending money helped…

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1916 List Of Foods Forbidden To Baby Such As Beer And Whisky

Okay, folks. Don’t feed your baby beer. Keep the wine for yourself and skip the coffee, too. Here is a list of foods, published in…

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5 Horrors of the Old Orphanages

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, running an orphanage was often a big business. People of wealth would help fund the orphanages. Sometimes the…

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