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Weekend Link Dump: Papal warships, tattooed mummies, notable graveyards, disappearing couples, the Miracle of Amsterdam & more! strangeco.blogspot.com/2025/05/weeken…

Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats celebrates our Weekend Drunken Kittens!

It's #Caturday!

Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is the stylish Casper, "talented (and, hopefully, only temporarily blind) alley cat." (Jersey Journal 1956, via Newspapers.com)

This week's #Caturday scorecard: Mrs. Catherine Langton: 0 (!) Neighbors' cats: 1 (Trenton Times 1919, via Newspapers.com)

Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats is lit!

A bit of #Caturday history: We meet some beautiful royal kittens!

White rabbit!

#OTD 1840 Poe wrote William Burton, "your attempts to bully me excite in my mind scarcely any other sentiment than mirth...If by accident you have taken it into your head that I am to be insulted with impunity I can only assume that you are an ass."

Today is #WorldMilkDay. In the world of Victorian children's books, this is quickly followed by "Get Flattened By a Train Day."

So now you know how to get out of jury duty. (The Day Book 1912, via Newspapers.com)

They know how to have a good time in Hereford. (Deseret News 1850, via Newspapers.com)

Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats celebrates #WorldMilkDay!

#OTD 1852 W.J. Pabodie wrote a long letter to the "New York Tribune" (published on June 7) refuting some of Rufus Griswold's many lies about Poe. (Via Newspapers.com)

James Kidd and his soul-searching will that sparked an unusual legal battle. strangeco.blogspot.com/2025/06/james-…

A boy and his young friend hanging out in New York's Lower East Side, 1948. (Photo: Rebecca Lepkoff) #MewseumMonday

Just one of those things you only see in the Illustrated Police News. (Via Newspapers.com)

Meanwhile, in the world of goats... (Brooklyn Times 1913, via Newspapers.com)

Today's Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats. Dinner is served!