A bit of #Caturday history: The first Championship Cat Show at the Crystal Palace, London, 1871.

Today’s Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats.

And even more Unexpected mice.

This week's #Caturday scorecard:
Gentleman who resides on Adams avenue: 0
$40 mirror: 0
Cat: 2
(Detroit Free Press 1875, via Newspapers.com)

Our #Caturday Feline of the Week is Mons, famed war veteran. (Lancaster News-Journal 1923, via Newspapers.com)

It's #Caturday !

God help us all.

#OTD 1839 Poe's 'The Devil in the Belfry' was published in the 'Saturday Chronicle.'

Weekend Link Dump: Mysterious structures, mysterious inscriptions, mysterious mummies, eunuch Admirals, London’s “second-best whore” & more!

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

Enoch Arden meets Ann Landers. (Charlotte Observer 1956, via Newspapers.com)

#ForteanFriday question: Ghost? Or escaped lunatic? You make the call! (Richmond River Herald 1906, via Newspapers.com)

Weekend Link Dump: Mysterious structures, mysterious inscriptions, mysterious mummies, eunuch Admirals, London’s “second-best whore” & more!

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#OTD 1845 the 'New York Town' published a parody of Poe's alternating praise-and-bash style of literary criticism:

Today's Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats.

Tea party!

Matrimony. (Santa Cruz Sentinel 1937, via Newspapers.com)

NEVER TAKE A BEER FROM A GUY NAMED DEATH. (Birmingham Journal 1809, via Newspapers.com)

In Louisiana, there is a belief that if you suddenly feel a breath of warm air, there is a ghost near you. However, if you turn your pockets inside out, the spirit will not harm you. #FolkloreThursday

It's #FolkloreThursday ! (Charles Daniel Ward, The Progress of Spring)

#OTD 1836 Edgar Allan Poe was married to Virginia Eliza Clemm.

I hope I'm not looking at something that's about to end up on the 10 o'clock news.

Today's Vintage Ad With Unexpected Cats observes #NationalNylonStockingDay !