Adventures of an Imperfect Man In Search of a Handmade Life
This wonderful little piece comes from Slate in the Vault blog. It's a great broadside advertisement from a 1690 coffeehouse entrepreneur claiming the benefits of our now most commonly used drug on Earth, caffeine. Coffee was known in Europe but new as a common drink and still a bit suspect since it came from Arabia … Continue reading The Virtues of Coffee, Chocolate, and Tea
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Where have you been all my life. Lady Florence Norman on her Autoped; another interesting Internet find. This is what I found about it: “Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter in 1916, travelling to work at offices in London where she was a supervisor. The scooter was a birthday present from her husband, the … Continue reading Anyone?
Found at Vintage Everyday.
Presenting the MOULE'S PATENT EARTH CLOSET CO., Ld. Humanure is not as new of an idea as we are often led to believe. With the genuine Moules, there are no, bad smells, typhoid OR diphtheria! That's quite a bonus. Well, if it's good enough for Windsor Castle and Sandringham then it's good enough for me! … Continue reading Marketing to the Caravan Craze: Composting Toilet
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