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help disecting newspaper?
Im writing a report on a local newspaper in the early 1900's. and I am running out of ideas if you have any please share, thank you.
I have read hundreds of papers and these are some things I have written down and questions I have that should bring up more information for me.
lots of ads geared towards women for ailment medication such as headache, nausea, nerves, heart burn, etc. they all contain 'her' and 'she' words. the women in the ads are always long, lean and beautiful. if they have all these ailments how are they so beautiful. the comic strip at the bottom of the page in every edition however always contained a fat ungroomed missing tooth women.
I also seen alot of house appliance ads, of course showing this beautiful women in her dress with a smile from ear to ear, scrubbing clothes and using a wash basin, or on her hands and knees scrubbing the floors etc.
What is this saying about femininity?
why are most of the columns about what people did like mr and mrs smith are vacationing in vancouver and will return feb 10. or mrs value is returning to teaching at hale school. There are this colums every issue and the colum is quite long. I dont get it, the kids school marks were printed in the paper as well. seems really gossipy but they all also seem like their written by a male. but all of the authers and writers are only listed as first initial and last name. Why do they feel everyone should know this information? seems really gossipy.
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- Live Laugh LoveLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
In the early 1900's, they used cocaine as anesthetic and for migraines (it reportedly worked wonders). And it only cost 15 cents too (compared to the astronomical prices for a kilo today). And this was good cocaine, not filed with gasoline and sulphuric acid stuff
The 1900's was the Victorian Era. Women at home, but public education started becoming standard. Household appliances were becoming mainstream and eased the housekeeping burden. (Freeing up time for women to engage in typical Victorian practices such as tea time). A time of great social change due to the United States becoming a imperial power. Teddy Roosevelt was about to become President and transform the country completely.
And newspapers back then featured alot more local news because getting information from around the world wasn't that mainstream yet (it won't be until the 1920's). Newspapers were a social medium (they were the equivalent of televisions/internet news today), and men and women read them for information about the town. Americans back then weren't that mobile (remember, the first mass produced car, the Ford Model T didn't come out until 1908).
Advertisements were very abstract back then, in correlation with the trendy Impressionist style of art (especially popularized by Van Gogh). People loved it, and it would be the rage and style of advertisements well into the 1910's.
And if you think the information the early newspapers had were gossipy, what about OK Magazine, People, etc. Different times, same context.
- Sam I AmLv 51 decade ago
Because gossip is pretty much all they had back then. Everyone in small towns knew (and probably still knows) everyone's business. This has gone back centuries. I don't think gossip will ever die.
And also consider the forms of communication back then. They weren't able to get overseas news for weeks. Local was the quickest & easiest way to get information, and the locals wanted gossip. Give them what they want - what pays for the food on your table.
- 1 decade ago
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