Aerial war-ships? Check. Grand opera telephoned to private homes? Yep. Mosquitoes, house-flies, and roaches “practically exterminated?” Who dropped the ball on that one?
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Get your facts straight - not 1911 - Dec 1900 and Ladies Home Journal is considered a magazine, not a newspaper.
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Houseflies *have* been practically exterminated as compared to 1911. One hundred years ago, horses were still very much a part of the transportation infrastructure, and because of their leavings, flies were a constant and incredible nuisance.
ORANGES WILL GROW IN PHILADELPHIA?
TO DREAM SUCH A BIG DREAM
Where is “and women will vote for a black president?”
Wow, to be able to travel to England in two days? Dream big, Ladies Home Journal!
This was from 1901, not 1911. But neat!
They certainly had a thing for pneumatic tubes. Where did they imagine all these pneumatic tubes would fit? I have a mental picture of a landscape clogged with mass quantities of tubes of various sizes, all willy nilly. At the risk of exposing myself as a total nerd, a Harvey Birdman episode comes to mind. So does a series of tubes.
Sign me up for the giant strawberries!
Store purchases by tubes:
Sen. Ted Stevens was right! the internet is just a series of tubes.
“Ready cooked meals will be bough” haha.. Yup.
apparently it is always sunny in philadelphia.
“By automatic circuit [telephones] will connect with any circuit in their locality without the intervention of a “hello girl”“. I'm willing to bet there are a whole lot of people who would give their left testicle for the intervention of a “hello girl”.
So close, 1911-ers! You forgot the part about “someone, somewhere, will still want to murder the Jews.”
hit and miss…
Nailed it! I think this gave the corpse if Nostradomus a hard-on.
We also dropped the ball on “Everybody Will Wallk 10 Miles” unless they meant as a character on World Of Warcraft.
“An University education will be free to every man and woman.” Oh, if they could see us now.
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