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Me, I’d move the rug before painting the floor. But, then again, I might think twice about doing heavy housework in a whalebone corset and ankle-length dress.
From Our Silent Traveller Fall/Winter catalogue, 1900. Back when people didn’t have the common sense that God gave a garden slug.
That said, back then, folks didn’t need “AI” to get medical advice. All you had to do was go see Doc Butterfield, who would psychically diagnose you. Take that, ChatGPT!
from The Gazette and Farmers Journal, 1897
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“The burning of an iron wire by the most powerful electric discharge yet produced.” The popular science monthly. April 1900.
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La Mode illustrée, no. 7, 18 février 1900, Paris. Guêtres pour bicycliste. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
