Not sure if this is of interest to anyone. Just thought Id post it in case anyone wanted a look. I bought a large gaudy Welsh jug a couple of weeks ago and it was stuffed full of newspaper. I took it out and they are dated to the late 1940s and from the South West area. Some fascinating stories and adverts. View attachment 455290
Yeah some of the social themes and attitudes towards good health in it are fascinating. And the bit about Nazis being taken to trial too.
My beloved grandmother swore by Vicks. When she passed we found a box full of the blue glass jars (remember those?) . Who knows why she saved them. I can sill smell that stuff !
I HAVE Vicks! Nothing works as well as a slathering of Vicks from the neck to the chest, cuddled up with an old, soft buttoned-up shirt. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Amusing. I have an interesting (to me anyway) old newspaper story. A few years ago a bought a NW Coast model canoe. It had some extra parts - harpoons and such - which were a bit delicate, so a former owner had cut up an old newspaper and fashioned it into a little storage thingy for them. Upon inspection, the newspaper was from the day Elvis Presley died, and they'd cut up the article about his death. Not Elvis fans, I guess.
Thankfully everyone saved that one and it's not worth a pile. Sounds like you ran into some Pat Boone fans.
I had a Frankoma cornucopia planter the tail of which was stuffed with a magazine ad for a 1950 Buick Roadmaster convertible:
I suppose that people who would use newsprint in a context such as these could be thinking of it as a sort of time capsule, hoping someone at some future time will see the paper and be curious.
