yesterdaysprint:

megmerilees:

tyrannosaurus-trainwreck:

yesterdaysprint:

The Correct Thing in Good Society, Boston, 1921

Y’all been getting told not to hit on the barista since before we went off the gold standard.

Personally, my favorite is finding out that people have been using punctuation in the middle of a sentence (!) to indicate expression since at least the 1920s.

Since the 1890s at least! 

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1897: