Old School Blogging Device
This is an advertisement from a Johnson Smith Catalog (ebay!) circa sometime around the 1940’s. For only 12 bucks you could have walked away with your very own printing press with double rollers (great for teachers!). On the opposite page is this advertisement for whole cases of 8 through14 point Kabel type (one of my favorites). So for less than $15 bucks you could have started your very own daily leaflet and journal print shop. Opening the catalog to five random pages you get:

1. Secrets of Ventriloquism – 25&#162
2. Robert Burns Cigars (5 Cigars) – 50&#162 – great packaging!
3. Telegraph set (For Boys) – 15&#162
4. Smoking Eyes – 35&#162 – “You casually smoke a cigarette and then to the amazement of everyone the smoke comes ‘out of your eyes.’ Watch the doctors run for their cases; the ladies for the fire wagon.”
5. Brudder Gardner Stump Speeches – 25&#162