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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

klg19: “How Miss Lili rendered a great service to her friend, Azor.”  Benjamin Rabier, “Le Peigne,” from Ecoutez-moi!, Paris, Garnier, 1926, p. 53. First published in 1904 in Le Journal amusant. (Source : Gallica.bnf.fr) Found at Topfferiana.

klg19:

“How Miss Lili rendered a great service to her friend, Azor.” 

Benjamin Rabier, “Le Peigne,” from Ecoutez-moi!, Paris, Garnier, 1926, p. 53.
First published in 1904 in Le Journal amusant. (Source : Gallica.bnf.fr)

Found at Topfferiana.

cabbagingcove: Frederick Winters at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis From the little I can gather, Frederick Winters was a “strongman” in a carnival for some time, and claimed a silver medal at the 1904 Olympics for “Men’s All-Around Dumbell” - an event intended to determine the overall weightlifting champion, and held over the course of two long days. Of course, given that there were only three competitors, it wasn’t much of an “All-Around” anything, much less championship, but Winters performed admirably nonetheless. His top lift was 45 kg. Olympic Multimedia Foundation, 1904; Public Domain

cabbagingcove:

Frederick Winters at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis

From the little I can gather, Frederick Winters was a “strongman” in a carnival for some time, and claimed a silver medal at the 1904 Olympics for “Men’s All-Around Dumbell” - an event intended to determine the overall weightlifting champion, and held over the course of two long days.

Of course, given that there were only three competitors, it wasn’t much of an “All-Around” anything, much less championship, but Winters performed admirably nonetheless. His top lift was 45 kg.

Olympic Multimedia Foundation, 1904; Public Domain

stellar-raven: Women’s Hockey Team (1904) Presenting a lovely group of hockey players, who may have been photographed in Tramore, Co. Waterford. Date: Thursday, 24 March 1904

stellar-raven:

Women’s Hockey Team (1904)

Presenting a lovely group of hockey players, who may have been photographed in Tramore, Co. Waterford. Date: Thursday, 24 March 1904

lostsplendor: White Satin and Pearl, c. 1904 via The New York Public Library

lostsplendor:

White Satin and Pearl, c. 1904 via The New York Public Library

(via lostsplendor)

miscellanyflow: I had no idea a croquet mallet could be used for this particular purpose. Good to know! cabbagingcove: “She made them gallop around an imaginary ring” Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History. Myrtle Reed, illustrations by Peter Newell, 1904.

miscellanyflow:

I had no idea a croquet mallet could be used for this particular purpose. Good to know!

cabbagingcove:

“She made them gallop around an imaginary ring”

Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History. Myrtle Reed, illustrations by Peter Newell, 1904.

questionableadvice: ~ Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia; Sunday, February 28, 1904via Trove“Don’t wear jewels in the morning. The nobody’s do, and if you glitter in daylight you will be taken for a nobody.”

questionableadvice:

~ Sunday Times, Perth, Western Australia; Sunday, February 28, 1904
via Trove

“Don’t wear jewels in the morning. The nobody’s do, and if you glitter in daylight you will be taken for a nobody.”

ohhhlulu: edwardian Ladies Home Journal March 1904

ohhhlulu:

edwardian

Ladies Home Journal March 1904

geisterseher: “This is a Motor Car. It can travel forty miles an hour. There is a number on the back of it. If the car runs over you make a note of it and complain to the County Council. That is what the number is for.”The Motor Car Dumpy Book by T.W.H Crosland. Illustrations by J.R. Monsell. London: Grant Richards, 1904. Innocent days.

geisterseher:

“This is a Motor Car. It can travel forty miles an hour. There is a number on the back of it. If the car runs over you make a note of it and complain to the County Council. That is what the number is for.”


The Motor Car Dumpy Book by T.W.H Crosland. Illustrations by J.R. Monsell. London: Grant Richards, 1904.

Innocent days.

(Source: archive.org)

geisterseher: “This is a motor airship. Some day we shall all have them.” From The Motor Car Dumpy Book by T.W.H. Crosland. Illustrations by J.R. Monsell. London: Grant Richards, 1904. I’m still waiting for mine.

geisterseher:

“This is a motor airship. Some day we shall all have them.” From The Motor Car Dumpy Book by T.W.H. Crosland. Illustrations by J.R. Monsell. London: Grant Richards, 1904.

I’m still waiting for mine.

(Source: archive.org)

iloveretro: Drawing for a Game Board (1904) This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie, today known as “The Landlord’s Game”, a game that’s very much like “Monopoly” that originally came out in the 1930s

iloveretro:

Drawing for a Game Board (1904)

This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie, today known as “The Landlord’s Game”, a game that’s very much like “Monopoly” that originally came out in the 1930s