Advert - L C Smith Typewriter (1910ish)

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The L C Smith model 8 typewriter from around 1910/11. Having used a manual typewriter in the past I cannot believe the'Silent' claim. The company evolved into Smith-Corona.

Advert - Turk cigarettes (1910's)

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Lovely drawing in this 1910's advert for Turf cigarettes by 'The Tout' aka Peter Ronald Buchanan. His original artworks are now collectable items.

Advert - Garrould's Red Cross etc supplies (WWI)

A WWI advert for Garrould's of Edgware Road. For 'the seat of War' read 'up to your ears in mud and bullets'.

Cutting - The Infuenza (1919)

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This was the Influenza pandemic that spread across the World between 1918 and 1920 and killed an estimated 20 to 50 million people globally. It reached Britain in May 1918 and killed 228,000 people many of whom were, unlike the usual victims of ‘flu, young fit adults.

Advert - Height Increased (1910's)

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Increase your height without drugs, dieting or appliances for only 5/- (25p or taking inflation into account £26). By return post a letter saying 'Stand up straight, you bow-tie wearing wimp!'

Advert - Whiteley's Furs (approx 1910)

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Whiteley's furs. Those were the days when wearing a dead wolf, bear or hare round your neck was a la mode. I note that the wolf was 'cross'. I assume the strong frames on the Whiteley umbrellas were for when you were clubbing seals to death.

Cutting - Flying Baroness Killed (1919)

July 1919

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Elise Raymonde Deroche, known as Baroness De Laroche, was a pioneering French aviatrix and the first woman in the world to receive a pilot's licence. Unable to join the air force during WWI she became an Army driver for the duration. She returned to flying in 1919 but as shown here was killed on July 18th while a passenger in an experimental plane

Advert - Bourneville Cocoa (approx 1910)

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Lovely little sketch of kids running in for a cup of Bourneville Cocoa. I wonder when 'Mummie' became 'Mummy'?

Random Cutting - Slave to Drugs (1919)

12th March 1919

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Doctor prescribes heroin injections, patient gets hooked on 'repeat' heroin prescriptions, patient gets ill, patient dies. Verdict - death by natural causes. The Billie Carleton case referred to in the cutting, happened the previous November when the young actress died of a heroin overdose after a Victory party at the Royal Albert Hall.

Random Cutting - Future of aviation (1919)

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Published in March 1919 this article in support of aviation as the future in both war and peace is suprisingly perseptive. Boer War and world War I veteran and politician General John Seely had recently been made Under-Secretary of State for Air but he resigned at the end of 1919 after the Government refused to create a Secretary of State for Air.

Random Cutting - Carpentier Wins in 8 Rounds (1919)

July 1919

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Georges Carpentier was half was through a winning streak of 12 matches when he won by a knock-out against Dick Smith who had only won 3 of his previous 10 bouts. Carpentier finally fought Jack Dempsey in New Jersey in 1921 and his winning streak ended.

Random Ad - Oatine Face Cream (1917)

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A 1917 advert for Oatine Face Cream. It may have worked on female Bank clerks but I doubt it did a lot of good for munitions workers whose skin turned yellow from handling TNT.

Random Cutting - Crippen awaits trial (1910)

23rd September 1910

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Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen had been arrested in Canada on the 31st July 1910 and was being held in London awaiting his trial for the murder of his wife, Cora, which was to start on the 18th October.  The prosecution team was actually led by Mr Muir, not Sir Rufus Isaacs, assisted by Mr Humphreys and a Mr Oddie. Defence council was led by Mr Tobin KC. Crippen was found guilty and hanged.

If you are really interested you can read the whole trial proceedings in this 1919 book by Filson Young online and free here.

Random Ad - Danderine (1910)

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Thank goodness for Danderine. It 'Grows Hair'. Without it hair wouldn't grow. We'd all look like Wayne Rooney. But with it we can look like some side-show freakish Rapunzel.

Prospect of Peace at Easter (1919)

Evening Standard dated Wednesday March 12th 1919

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Fighting in the Great War or World War I ended with the Armistice on November 11th 1918 but didn't officially end until the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919, missing Easter by just over 2 months. Some say it didn't end until the Treaty of Sèvres was signed on August 10th 1920. The Paris Peace Conference began on January 18th 1919 and came to an end on January 21st 1920 with the inaugural General Assembly of the League of Nations. 

Big Game Hunters in London (1910)

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If murdering wildlife is your thing then Frederick Courteney Selous is your man, or he was until, rather ironically, a German sniper shot him in 1917.

Random Cutting - Greys Cigarettes (WWI)

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First World War anti-German propaganda used for cigarette advertising resulted in this bizarre image of man and horse wearing gas-masks. Cigarettes '... for real men' not poison gas weilding Huns!

Random Ad - Milton Vermin killer (1919)

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Milton vermin killer. Kills lice, bed bugs and nits. Even kills cockroaches. And mice. Removes stains and destroys plant pests. Oh... and feel free to pour it over your food before eating it.

Random Cutting - Football scandal (1918)

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From the Daily Chronicle 23rd March 1918. George Anderson had been playing for Manchester United since 1911until he tried to fix a match in December 1917 and was suspended for life. At the trial featured in the cutting he was sentenced to 8 months in prison. It is a sign of the times that someone can be refered to several times in the article by the term 'A Jew' or 'the Jew'.

General Booth Memorial

Daily Mirror not dated but probably 21st or 22nd August 1912 

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William Booth was born in Nottingham in 1829 and founded the Salvation Army in 1865. He died at the age of 83 on 20th August 1912.