The Soda Fountain was a hallmark of late Victorian-era United States culture. Numerous patents and patent renewals show the developments in technology–just how complicated and how effectively simple the designs were. Vintage newspaper articles explain Europe’s reaction to Dows’ Soda Fountain in the American Restaurant at Paris’s Universal Exhibition. Soda fountains have come a long way!
Today, June 20th, is National Ice Cream Soda Day! We’re all familiar with Ice Cream Sodas… any flavor ice cream, floating in any flavor soda, right? Yes, unless you’re a Victorian American at the oh, so popular Soda Fountain. The nineteenth century’s Ice Cream Soda just might surprise you!
Scams involving fraudulent matrimonial companies abounded in the nineteenth century. Vintage newspapers often reported circumstances, chastised the foolish hearts who sent money to their correspondent, and insisted that no man or woman worth marrying needed to resort to the mail or an agency. This article, titled the same (as my post) was originally published in The New York Times, January 21, 1900, and details the circumstances of a purported “heiress”, gushing love letters on scented stationery, her two lovesick swains, the Manhattan matrimonial agency, and the judge’s decree.
New Release today, June 13, 2017: Oh Danny Boy by USA Today Bestselling Author Josie Riviera. This Sweet Contemporary Romance is available with Kindle Unlimited, and was Kindle Scout approved.
Nicholas Erik’s title, The Indie Book Marketing Crash Course: A 5 Day Step-by-Step System to Increasing Your Book Sales (Crash Courses for Authors 1) was an enlightening and helpful read. As I rated it so highly, I wrote a review (both here and on Goodreads) to assist other writers (or those simply curious about how an author goes about succeeding at marketing a book) with the process. Indie Authors will find this title super helpful. Even better–this title is FREE on all Amazon platforms and on Google Play…and it looks like it intends to stay that way.
Vintage newspaper articles from 1827 and 1876 illustrate the Victorian-era attitude regarding a woman’s work within the home. Far more than meal preparation and child-rearing, these brief statements memorialize the era’s viewpoint of differences between men and women, and the wife’s cherished role as confidante, partner in sorrows and joys, whose feminine endowment brings “exquisite tact which rounds the sharp corners, and softens the asperities of different characters, enabling people differing most widely to live together in peace…”
