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Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Printed 112 years ago today in the Tacoma Times. I had to clean it up mostly for readability, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The articles and ads elsewhere on the page are usually pretty interesting too. If you ever need a 10-pound pail of Lard Lard Lard in 1912 I can tell you where to go.

And:

LUCKY for the world that Marconi was only bruised and not killed. For with Marconi we can yet hope for a lot more things along the "wireless" line.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TBF lard is great

I wonder if we'll ever get anything truly useful out of that Marconi chap

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

I heard he plays a pretty good mamba