Re: Old-fashioned Advice

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I was doing some geneology research awhile back,and was going through old

newspapers,looking for birth and death notices and such,and I enjoyed reading a

lot of the articles.Many were pretty funny.Hard,though,as they are all on

microfilm.My eyes bother me after awhile,and trying to manuver the dang thing to

the right side of the page was difficult.Those papers had quite a few

pages.Death notices seemed to be all over the place,so I founf myself reading

many of the other articles.

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> Just saw this today in an HSI email I get daily... Thought you'd enjoy.

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> " According to medical specialists, being smartly dressed is a mental stimulant

and can even ward off sickness. "

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> That note appeared in a New York newspaper in 1909.

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> And from an 1886 edition of a Pennsylvania newspaper: " The death of Mr. Maas,

the well-known tenor, calls attention to the peril of sleeping in a damp bed. "

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> And from a Kentucky paper, 1911: " New York's foremost medical men go so far as

to say that if every adult walked five miles a day, doctors would be put out of

work. "

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> These three antique news items also appeared on twitter, in a twitter feed

known as Tweets of Old (twitter.com/TweetsofOld).

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> R.L. Ripples -- a writer and researcher -- posts several tweets every day.

Each one contains a line transcribed from actual newspapers or digital scans of

newspapers in online archives.

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> I picked out the three above because they're health-related. But there are all

kinds of quotes on a wide range of topics, such as the Galveston Sand Crabs

baseball team (Texas, 1895), home dentistry (Tennessee, 1904), and beer made

from Sacramento River water (California, 1886).

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> I'll finish with one more health warning: " Cook, of Vernon, died of

blood poisoning caused by smoking cigarettes. " (Texas, 1895)

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> Don't smoke, get daily exercise, and make sure your bed is dry. Old advice,

but all good.

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