Last Thursday, a throw-back Thursday, I showed you a magazine from 1945 with an advertisement for Old Taylor bourbon whiskey.
Today, on a way-back Wednesday, I'm going to take you back even further, thanks to an issue of Success Magazine from the year 1908!
That means that magazine, which my wife had squirreled away in a drawer and which came to light during some cleaning recently, is 113 years old.
That's One-Hundred-and-Thirteen years!
Probably older than anyone reading this blog post.
Here it is.
For those of you who don't recognize him, that's the then-President of the United States on the cover.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
The magazine was founded in 1897 by Orison Swett Marden.
Googling him will produce a fascinating biography of one of the rags-to-riches men of the late 19th Century.
Looking at old magazines like this is always fascinating, to see how things have changed and at how some things remain the same.
Here's an advertisement for an early invention by one Thomas Edison.
Take notice of the very-corseted lady on the left and her well-attired gentleman companion.
Another advertisement inside told of a cereal created in 1894 by William K. Kellogg for patients at a sanitarium where he worked in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Interestingly enough, all these years later, Kellogg's Corn Flakes and Success Magazine are still with us.
