u/ReStitchSmitch

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Got a bunch of clippings in March on Etsy, and I swore the Rubies had mealy bugs.

Did the alcohol treatment, haven't seen any in a few months - then BAM.

Bout to pitch this, and I'm 99.99999% sure this is mealy bugs, but I'm looking for someone else's opinion before these end up in the compost for no reason.

Mealy bugs?

Update - video of alcohol going onto white. Watch video and lemme know if you still think it is not bugs?

Update update - an overwhelming amount of you said NOT mealys. Rubies have been rescued from an impending firey death. Thank you all!

I am LIVID. Of course this book belongs to another library (I am a librarian). So now I have to report this to them when I get to my work.

It's throughout, too. Skimming I found 5 censored words, including God.

I feel like I *should* be a good team player, read the book and report the pages. But it will take me out of my leisure reading, make me mad, and have to interrupt myself to make note of the page.

And the damage is done. It's hard to see, but they sharpied over the word first, so you can't scrape the white out off. This book is ruined (imo) and should be replaced.

What would you do? Should I see if there's another copy available so I don't get triggered everytime? Or be a good sport and keep going?

I'm enraged. Not your property, not your damn book to censor.

I'm a librarian at a local independent branch, and I'm going through the vault and finding super old books. I came across this and thought I'd share!

Want ne to look up an old name or something? Let me know!

1880 Librarian back again with some beautiful books!

I was so excited to find the War Service sticker and the PA women sticker!

Never saw those before. So it felt like Christmas in July, then I find A Christmas Carol. Haha!

I freaking love my job.

I am now in charge of cataloging all the ancient texts!

As I get deeper into the vault, even older ones will reveal themselves, this is who I came across today.

PLEASE read this carefully.

I was given a very old pamphlet from I believe 1913ish(?)

The Herb Doctor: A Collection of Valuable Medicinal Formulae

Revised Eighth Edition

Joseph E. Meyer

Copyright 1912

(NOTE MINE DOES NOT SAY & MEDICINE MAN)

It's an original paper-wrapper pamphlet, approximately 80 pages long (numbered through page 79) and includes customer testimonials dated June and July 1913, along with advertisements for Indiana Herb Gardens products and other publication

When you Google it, you will get one that looks completely different from mine (see last Pic)

IT IS NOT The Herb Doctor and Medicine Man from 1922.

Is anyone willing to help me investigate this? I plan to digitally archive it if so!

(I also have this posted on helpmefind)

Reposting cause I screwed up the pics the 1st time

1913 Herb Doctor (snake oil salesman) Pamphlet was given to me. I'm obsessed and can't put it down. The bit about the monkeys is

ETA - Google only brings up a 1922 edition titled "The Herb Doctor & Medicine Man". Different cover, pages, everything. I cant find anything about my copy. I emailed the Indiana Historical Society to see if they have a copy archived or any info about it!

Doctors were not common rural areas of the USA and expensive to travel to. Herbalists, botanists and others would come up with remedies, passed down by generations or simply made up, to sell to people. This was commonly referred to as "snake oil". It's a fascinating twist in history, and yet ridiculous as hell that people believed this stuff. The entire page on the monkey experiments?!

(Reposted cause I screwed up the pics)

ETA AND UPDATE This isn't the The Herb Doctor & Medicine Man edition from 1922 thats popping up on Ebay and internet archive.

Mine is Copyright 1913 and has an entirely different cover and pages. (Note mine doesn't say & Medicine Man) I can't find ANY information about it.

I've reached out to the Indiana Historical Society to see if there's one like mine archived!

I recently was given this, and upon doing research, there's not much out there about it.

Its a 1913 Herb Doctor Pamphlet.

I've contacted the Indiana Historical Society to see if they have a copy. And if not, would they like a digital one.

I've combed this front to back and can't stop thinking about it! It's fascinating to me.

Wild reading in this thing!

ETA - Reddit.. I'm kinda freaking out?

This isn't the The Herb Doctor & Medicine Man edition from 1922 thats popping up on Ebay and internet archive.

Mine is Copyright 1913 and has an entirely different cover and pages. (Mine doesnt say & Medicine Man) I can't find anything on the edition I have.

I've reached out to the Indiana Historical Society to see if there's one like mine archived!

Here's a small bit of some oldies we still have today

$15 on vacation in Hershey PA at an antique shop.

Felt it was glass, had both rhinestone eyes so I figured why not.

Google Lens says its a Czech cracker jack from the early 1900s. Its going up in my printers shelf full of tiny items.

It's gotta sit unplugged for 24 hours. After that, game on!