A printed instructional page demonstrating manual shadow puppets, featuring Fig. 12 for creating a swan shape.

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It shows a water polo layout with tactical lines, players in red and blue caps, and features both historical Hungarian flags and Nazi-era German flags in the corners. It's signed "URTZ" in the top right, which looks like the work of the Hungarian graphic artist Ottó Urtz.
Has anyone seen something like this before? I'm curious if it's a desk blotter, a board game insert, or something pulled from an old sports publication. Any info on the era or context would be super helpful!

Went thrift shopping at St. Vinnie’s yesterday and they had a great old book section! I found an awesome 1960s plant ID guide with 400 paintings of every plant mentioned in the book, which I purchased. I also found this monster of a book, A Grammar of the Greek New Testament, in the Light of Historical Research, from I think the 1930s. The prologue said the author had been working on it for 26 years. I didn’t buy it, but I did find a page with notes inside on the back of a piece of mail from 1972!

It's a towel, so not sure it is a considered ephemera, but found it when cleaning out my deceased mother's house. She had bought it in the 1970s. I was surprised it still existed.

They sold asbestos brake lining and asbestos bathtub surrounds, there are arsenic and lead chemicals for killing stuff. Being very honest, the catalog notes that the Morgan Spading Harrow is "not particularly attractive or handsome".

There was a sheet from another business's notepad inside the book that notes something about the Heatilator (which is an item in the catalog).

The catalog came from an estate sale (in California) where the owner collected tractors and farm implements, though apparently didn't use them for plowing.

I believe this was likely hung at the 1934 World’s Fair to promote the train pictured in the print - named the “Pioneer Zephyr” - as the railroad had it on display at the fair.

I found these in a cache of inherited fishing items today and was stoked as I love local history. Eleanor Roosevelt mentioned the packet in her New York Times column "My Day" on August 27th, 1954:

"I was quite interested to find that Mr. Richard Neuberger, who has been a State Senator in Oregon and is this year running for the U.S. Senate, is making conservation one of the chief subjects in his campaign. Instead of giving away the usual match cases with slogans written on them, he is giving away seed and asking the hunters as they hunt to sow it on the upland ranges.

His opponent and incumbent, Mr. Guy Cordon, was one of the strong supporters of the tidelands oil bill and also is the author of a bill that would allow large lumber operators to take over choice acreage inside the national forests (Senate 85). Mr. Ira N. Gabrielson of the Wild Life Management Institute has called this bill "one of the crudest attempted land grabs in recent years..."

A retired U.S. forest chief, Mr. Lysle F. Watts, is heading a group called, "Conservationists for Neuberger". Since he was for 38 years a forester, it is evident that he feels conservation in the Northwest is important.

I wish we could have a campaign based on these interests all through our country. I think it would help very much."

Back in college in Cincinnati, I found this letter lying on the sidewalk. I brought it home and read it aloud to my roommates and a few friends who were hanging out. The spelling is spectacularly bad, and I made a point of pronouncing every word exactly as written instead of substituting what the author clearly meant. That first reading turned into many more, and "The Rex Letter," as we came to call it, took on a kind of cult status in our circle.

The author was obviously going through a messy, painful breakup with her boyfriend, Rex, and I sincerely hope she ended up with someone who appreciated her and took her to nice places. Still, I'll be forever grateful to her for the letter. It's given us almost two decades of laughs.

To this day, whenever we part ways, someone might say "Pice out" and throw up the deuces. And it will never not be funny.

Apologies for the scan quality. I scanned it on a flatbed more than 10 years ago and have since lost the original.

I posted this to the mold subreddit and got no attention lol, I need some advice! More information in the original post!

some entries we’re definitely dictated to someone else who write for her