1913

1950s

What were they thinking? 12 terrible vintage product names

From awful double entendres to horrible diseases to the just plain bizarre, here are a dozen products from yesteryear with some of the worst names to ever grace grocery store shelves.

1910s

Love & marriage: Does your husband know how to love you? (1913)

Love is — well, just love — to a man. But love to a woman means keeping one man in the background of her mind all of the time. Does your husband know how to love you?

1910s

Nothing is free – everything costs, says Billie Burke (1913)

Nothing is free; everything costs! Sermon by Billie Burke I’m going to preach a sermon from a text that most of us are always forgetting.

1910s

Pleistocene age onward: Six thousand million years of life (1913)

Six thousand million years of life At what period of the earth’s history life began no one knows. But the geologists calculate the oldest rock

1910s

Through the water at fifty-seven miles an hour (1913)

Through the water at fifty-seven miles an hour A striking picture of the world’s greatest speed achievement in motor boats Here is one of the

1910s

Walter Johnson: The swiftest pitcher (1913)

Swiftest pitcher’s amazing record Walter Johnson, wonderful hurler, who can snap the ball 122 feet a second – prevents the mightiest batsmen of the American

1910s

4 sweet & sour lemon recipes (1913)

Lemon meringues Ingredients: 6 heaping tablespoons of rice, 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 tablespoon of butter, scant half cup of sugar, 1 lemon, 3

1910s

The future of home cooling (1913)

Freezing air for hot homes Cooling by electric power from ordinary electric-light wires looks like the real hope. Yet another of the new summer comforts

1910s

Predicting earthquakes (1913)

Can earthquakes be predicted? Concerning the forecasting of earthquakes a writer in the New York Press says: A number of years ago, a great earthquake

1910s

The Irish O surname extolled by an heir (1913)

An ancient and noble prefix The Irish O extolled by a fortunate heir To the Editor of the Tribune: Sir: It is a pity so

1910s

Business girls should learn to save (1913)

Business girls should learn to save by Lucille Daudet Wouldn’t it be profitable for the business girl to give a little thought to the matter

1910s

Tiaras are rarely becoming (1913)

Tiaras rarely becoming So many women make the mistake through ignorance, of believing that if jewels cannot be unbecoming, no matter what color, style, or

1910s

Ocean-to-ocean highway needed (1913)

Lincoln highway is national need So says secretary of Argonaut Trail committee in urging project Benefits from great road second to those of the Panama

1910s

Two million miles of highway (1913)

Highways of US 2,000,000 miles Plans for national roads made extensive by national association Campaign for better conditions being pushed by large concern There are

1910s

Flying to Europe (1913)

Flying to Europe “I believe the time is coming in the near future when we will be able to cross direct from New York to

1910s

Baseball: Our national pastime (1914)

Our national pastime The Cincinnati Baseball Club of the National League by A Bart Horton, THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE Nearly a half century ago, the Cincinnati

1910s

Beautiful mouth or lovely eyes? (1913)

Beautiful mouth or eyes? Which Billie Burke do you like best? by Billie Burke “Which makes the ‘most beautiful woman,’” asks a correspondent, “beautiful eyes