motherjones:

laphamsquarterly:

From the New York Times, November 11, 1911.

More importantly, why can’t she wed the baron?

And what was up with those precise monkish scribes of 1111? These scribes today, they’re such unmotivated libertines.

  1. valkyrien reblogged this from lilianavonk and added:
    I think it’s Scheip or Schiep, with a poorly-rendered ’i’ - the ‘l’s looked different. But then, newspapers at the time...
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    As thanks for giving me a hearty chuckle, allow me to clarify matters… (I especially appreciate the description of Mrs....
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    Bugger the scribes, what’s all this about the Baron?! I must know!
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    I would imagine that she can’t wed the baron because she is a Mrs. Stadia.
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    I feel I maybe didn’t delight enough.
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    Seriously, I want to know what is up with that chick.
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