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Title: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: clairec666 on Tuesday 02 January 18 19:03 GMT (UK)
I love using the British Newspaper Archive as a source of information for my tree.

But an added bonus is the adverts.

Here's my favourite so far - please share any amusing ones you find!
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: BumbleB on Tuesday 02 January 18 19:14 GMT (UK)
Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep  :-X
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: clairec666 on Tuesday 02 January 18 19:17 GMT (UK)
Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep  :-X

Of course, or for the farmer! It just struck me as very different from today's newspaper adverts.
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Guy Etchells on Tuesday 02 January 18 20:10 GMT (UK)
Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep  :-X

I didn't know sheep read newspapers! ;)

Cheers
Guy
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: BumbleB on Tuesday 02 January 18 21:20 GMT (UK)
Definitely NOT amusing if you're a sheep  :-X

I didn't know sheep read newspapers! ;)

Cheers
Guy

You've obviously not met the right ones  :D :D
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Maiden Stone on Wednesday 03 January 18 01:01 GMT (UK)
Recent research has proved something I already knew; sheep are intelligent.
They can recognise pictures of individual human faces, even though one would assume that people all look alike to a sheep.
They are capable of complex mathematics.
Reading is of little benefit to sheep so they haven't bothered to learn. (Except for Shaun and his flock.)  ;)
I have Lamb lineage.
I wonder what P.T.Z. was abbreviation for. Probably an ingredient long since banned. If not, I may have administered it. I was about to say "used it".

Lamb 1: "Two and a half pints of blood? That's nearly a leg-full!"  :)
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Erato on Wednesday 03 January 18 01:17 GMT (UK)
PTZ = Phenothiazine formerly, maybe even still, used to eliminate intestinal parasites.
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Kiltpin on Wednesday 03 January 18 12:52 GMT (UK)
PTZ = Phenothiazine formerly, maybe even still, used to eliminate intestinal parasites.

This website explains everything you could possibly want to know about PTZ and probably things you don't want to know as well - if you can understand it!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4024446 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4024446)
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Wednesday 03 January 18 19:58 GMT (UK)
   Nothing to do with sheep! From 1933.
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: clairec666 on Thursday 04 January 18 07:38 GMT (UK)
It seems that sometime since 1933 we've forgotten that bus is an abbreviation and needs to be written as 'bus. :)
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: karen8 on Friday 05 January 18 06:35 GMT (UK)
I noticed that too, I think some abbreviations have become so standard that they have become words in their own right i.e 'phone and 'flu'.  What struck me most was that the article was as recent as 1933 - I would have expected it to be 1833! 
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: cati on Friday 05 January 18 07:48 GMT (UK)
I noticed that too, I think some abbreviations have become so standard that they have become words in their own right i.e 'phone and 'flu'.  What struck me most was that the article was as recent as 1933 - I would have expected it to be 1833!

I was born in 1954 and remember being taught at junior school to use the apostrophe in words such as 'bus and 'flu.

Cati
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Friday 05 January 18 10:38 GMT (UK)
Apos'trophe.

Martin
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Friday 05 January 18 13:44 GMT (UK)
  I think Cati may have been referring to the horse-drawn tanker. I was a little surprised by the horse, though not by the buckets and tanker, as they were still in use in the 1950s in rural areas.
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: CarolA3 on Friday 05 January 18 14:32 GMT (UK)
............ and still in use in the 1970s in parts of Norfolk :o

Carol
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: DavidG02 on Saturday 21 July 18 15:39 BST (UK)
(https://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/imageservice/rendition/article/jpg/nla.news-page000007905324-nla.news-article77660256-L3-33bfd0c6999ced5324b75cf6ff2a16a5-0001.jpg)

Hope the boys in the prison camps did the right thing by the 4 housewives

Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: CarolA3 on Saturday 21 July 18 15:56 BST (UK)
Now then young David, I'm not at all sure that you're not teasing us with your pretence of misapprehension.  The correct use of the 'housewife' (usually pronounced hussif)) is explained here:  https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-pocket-housewife/

But that clip is funny ;) ;D

Carol
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Tuesday 24 July 18 16:47 BST (UK)
I'm a bit too old for this sort of humour, but it made me smile.  Advert attached.

Martin
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: Mart 'n' Al on Tuesday 24 July 18 16:49 BST (UK)
Death at 140...?

Martin
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: pharmaT on Wednesday 25 July 18 09:53 BST (UK)
I noticed that too, I think some abbreviations have become so standard that they have become words in their own right i.e 'phone and 'flu'.  What struck me most was that the article was as recent as 1933 - I would have expected it to be 1833!

I wrote flu as 'flu' at work and everyone laughed at me. 

My funny newspaper article was when I was looking up my GRt grandparents.  Was coverage of a church service and said "and Mrs Dunn brought her donkey".
Title: Re: Amusing findings in newspaper archives
Post by: clairec666 on Wednesday 25 July 18 10:24 BST (UK)
Death at 140...?

Martin

Maybe she was one of P.T. Barnum's exhibitis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth)  ;D