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Just can’t abide this advertisement

by on July 12, 2020

Oh, what the quarantine has done to me.

Original advertisement — with landscape image in portrait mode — from the Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, Massachusetts), January 2, 1890 —

Revised (2020) —

© 2020, Mark Adams. All rights reserved.

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{ 2 comments… add one }
  • T. Munk July 12, 2020, 5:08 pm

    Much better! 😀

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  • Richard P July 13, 2020, 3:40 pm

    Maybe the guy was typing on a ship in a serious storm … or maybe this was a device to get the reader’s attention.

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