This 1882 catalogue for The Automatic Toy Works of New York was just posted on Retronaut. I'll let these excerpts speak for themselves. Then, let us never speak of them again.
See the rest here.
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Showing posts with label 19th century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th century. Show all posts
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Friday, November 25, 2011
F'd Ad Fridays: The Pope shills for cocaine wine
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| Via Cracked |
19th century Pope Leo XIII was such a big fan of Mariani wine (a patent medicine made of Bordeaux and coca leaves) that he awarded a Vatican gold medal to the wine, and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.
Talk about high holiness...
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