12 days ago

Archives of old newspapers from 1900 are great for learning about the new blacksmith shop, what steamers are arriving, and what balm the druggist has for rheumatism.

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Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz 12 days ago

"Cost of living prompts wife to commit suicide" - maybe 1913 wasn't so different from the present after all.

I might have thought "cost of living" is a newer phrase, but https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cost%20of%20living reports the first recorded use as 1796.

Ian Douglas Scott@mathstodon.xyz 12 days ago

It much have been so much less convenient in 1900 when instead of posting on Mastodon that you recovered from typhoid or drove to the city, you had to get in published in the newspaper.