Sunday, May 2, 2021

Even in the 1950s you wouldn't have seen this but it makes sense for 1904: This one isn't funny to me it's crazy in today's world

But then, often in those days whether it was 1904 or 1950 you either grew up fast or you never grew up at all. This was just how much harder life was in 1950 or 1904 than now in many different ways.

My mother used to say: "You do what you can and then can the rest". In other words "Stuff it!" This was how people mostly survived without any therapy beyond the nearest friend or mother or associate back then but often there was no one to listen to your problems so you just "Stuffed it" which just made people die younger and younger to stuff things. So, I watched many many people in my church die because they wouldn't go to a doctor in the 1950s and early 1960s especially until I left my childhood church in 1969 when I was 21.

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Published on April 25, 2021

Iver Johnson Revolvers Safe for Children; 1904

This may or may not be the last ad that distastefully features children though it is the last that ran before the 1920s. Iver Johnson claims to manufacture revolvers test are both safe to handle and easy to shoot and kill.

The design featured a manual safety on the trigger and advertisers thought it was a good idea to use a little girl holding the gun in their ad. Whether the gun has a hammer or not, it is a scary sight to see a little child holding one, accidents can happen.