Friday, April 17, 2020

Weird tales from yesteryear

Here are some bizarre snippets I found in the Colorado Springs Gazette, around 1920.
 This from 1926:






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  1. Jeez, the stuff people got up to in the olden days! Human nature doesn't change all that much, does it?

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    1. You said it Debra - the more at look at these old papers, the more I realize that the good old days were not so good.

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  2. That girl and the snake... Creepy.

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  3. That first one is just painful to think about. Now if you want a pet that’s aloof and only notices you when you have food or it wants to snuggle up to a warm body, the kid has got a point about snakes.

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    1. In the last 100 years, snakes as playful pets still have not caught on have they?

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