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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 5 hours ago

Child labor, workplace sexual harassment, and lax safety regulations: check!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 30 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is what erasers were back then:

Basically scalpels

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

So... they shaved the paper to remove the ink.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

They just carried open knives around in their shirt pockets? I mean, I wanna feel sympathetic but…

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 9 hours ago

They or teenagers?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Tragic, but... it was 1909. Odds are he was going to die of some manner or pox or -theria regardless.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Or he would have been drafted in ww1

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

But he woulda had 6 kisses so...about evens out?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Bet none of them faced even police questioning.