Some Things Never Change
You know how I’m always talking about the subtlety and sophistication of Australian advertising? Well, at least the current generation comes by it right. These are two ads from 21 January, 1908 that I just found in my research from last semester.
The first is for washing powder, the second for a fete (locally organized carnival) - they’re thumbnails, click ‘em:
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Wait. How many competitors will there be? I can’t believe it doesn’t cost FIVE DOLLARS to get in.
Now, nearly every day had a blurb about someone trying to throw themselves into the Yarra (the attempted suicide rate was out of control back then, apparently). Every story is like, ‘Another young girl found in the Yarra last night.’ The Argus was similarly unimpressed with this man:
I like the end of the story before - died with his swag on his back (as every good Aussie should). Well, that and the fact that they call the other guy’s dynamited body ‘the trunk’.
Finally, the news from the Dunolly Council:
Australia’s great.
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