John Beales: “Looking at some mid 19th-century newspapers today, it's amaz…”

Looking at some mid 19th-century newspapers today, it's amazing what people used to sell.

5:42 PM · Oct 23, 2026commit 716c084

Gimme some lead. I need to put water pipes in my home

would love to see some of this smudginess in the fonts of aging blogtext.

Don't know what I'd do with 150 long sticks, but I appreciate the hustle of collecting them! Also sounds like a task from math textbook.

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