We are all Rensselaer's mayor. [1903]

#OldNewspapers #Headlines #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork

When I took this – or even ten years ago, for that matter – I could not have imagined that city newsstands would almost completely disappear someday. This is from November 1979, in downtown #SyracuseNY. His name was Pete Mussi, and he was a fixture there for decades. He's holding up the afternoon paper, because at the time a city the size of Syracuse could still support two newspapers.

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Hey, turns out employment ad scams are nothing new. Here's a beauty from 1927 that I'm absolutely certain was a totally legitimate opportunity and probably neither murder nor multi-level marketing:

#OldNewspapers #ClassifiedAds #HistoricalScams #HelpWanted

#OldNewspapers #1828 #Obituaries##Combs #Horses

This clipping was with my father's collection of family memorabilia.

I can only assume the newspaper was from 1828, as that's the date on one item advertising comb repair.

It was the obituary that caught my eye, though. So young. I haven't looked up the name.

I will get to the alt text a bit later. Apologies.

So preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

1918 #Albany #newspaper #oldnewspapers #AlbanyNY

Ads from the summer weekly student newspaper where I worked, offering typing services. 1980. It was truly a different world. Not a lot of people typed, or needed to, and a typist could make decent side money. None of these ads were mine, but that's definitely my model of Coronamatic in the clip art in the middle.

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I regret to inform you that Mattices' has long since closed, and despair is now an option.

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This is definitely one of my most prized possessions. It's a Romanian satirical newspaper called "Furnica" ("The Ant") from January 1910.

I love this because it's a very good reflection of the people's problems from over 100 years ago and it shows that they were exactly like us. Nothing's really changed. This is 3 years after the Romanian Peasants Revolt of 1907 (an important event in Romanian history) and 4 years before WWI. (1/2)

#History #culture #Romania #worldwar1 #oldnewspapers