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Baseball on the Brain
When they can’t attend games, how does a busy, middle-class family find time for baseball? If they were living in the 19th century and had…
Category Archives: The sound of the past
Vulgar Wit
There are plenty of ways to make a point quickly and emphatically, but few are as economical as a good interjection. Compared to the expressions one never runs across anymore except in Shakespeare, eighteenth century…
Rudimentary phonograph technology
Once, for only 35¢ you could give your beloved the gift of sound – in the form of an Amazing Talking-Tape Card. Inexpensive chivalry was not yet dead. This particular example was made by the…
