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Vera Francis and Jimmy Edwards with “midget liquor salesman Frankie Dee.” (I’m pretty sure that means Frankie Dee was a midget; not that he was a salesman of midget booze bottles, like those you find in hotel room bars and on airplanes.)
Photo found in Jet magazine, February 19, 1953. More than that, Vera had midgets dueling for her affections. Check it out in my Vera Francis Timeline.
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I found this in the Bismarck Semi-Weekly Tribune from May of 1877. In the olden days, newspapers didn’t distinguish much between joke articles and true news, relying on context to tell whether or not something is real. I’m pretty sure, based on the florid prose employed to describe the troubles with auction-going, this was a humorous fiction piece. However, there’s something rather true about it all, so maybe it hasn’t happened in reality, but I’m pretty sure this has happened in spirit more than once. Full story inside…
We’ve all heard that saying about people starting to look like their dogs, so now this photo has me wondering if there’s any correlation between people’s appearance and the look of their Christmas trees…
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This vintage pinup posing with her pun-making pup postcard belongs to A Slip Of A Girl.
Up for auction at Heritage Auctions:
Attributed to CHARLES GATES SHELDON (American, 1889-1960)
Admiring the Saw
Pastel on board
30 x 19 in.
Signed lower rightFrom the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Hey, Selma, the console TV doesn’t weigh enough — if we want to block the door, you’ll need to lay on top of it. (If her name was Theda, it might be a Theda Bara-cade!)
Via.
If you’re so obsessed with Twitter that you can’t fall asleep, worrying about the tweets your missing, why not get yourself this Blue Bird Mobile? (Via.)
From Nanette The Hungry Pelican, by William Wise, illustrated by Winifred Lubell, published by Rand McNally, copyright 1969. (My copy a First Printing, February 1969 is now for sale.)
Mrs. Peabody Fitch
Was terribly rich,
And her house was as big as a mountain.It had beautiful trees,
And a garden with bees,
And goldfish that swam in a fountain.
I guess we know where Nanette comes in…
