What an interesting birth announcement
Posted by rbeaconblog on Aug 26th, 2006
I had to read this entry three times before I realized it was a birth announcement! How clever.
From the Sept 13, 1889 issue
On Thursday night of last week three strangers entered the city, two of which in about 21 years cast the Democratic vote, while the other a girl will perhaps be the mother of a Democratic boy. Messrs. W. H. Hampton and W. W. Scarboro can now sing “ain’t it nice to be the papa of a bouncing baby boy,” while Mr. W. D. Carstarphen has the pleasure of the sweet smiles of a little girl..
June 14th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
[...] birth announcement of one of her granddaughters appeared in the 13 Sep 1889 issue. I’d previously posted on how novel I thought this birth announcement was b/c it took me a few reads to even realize what it was trying to [...]