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almanac – J.E.S. Hays http://www.jeshays.com Author, Worldbuilder, Wordsmith Sun, 25 May 2014 23:21:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 http://www.jeshays.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-sitelogo-32x32.gif almanac – J.E.S. Hays http://www.jeshays.com 32 32 Digging Into the Past Again http://www.jeshays.com/?p=494 Fri, 16 May 2014 23:13:48 +0000 http://www.jeshays.com/?p=494

In addition to digging through the old newspapers in San Francisco, I was lucky enough to find two old almanacs from the years that Kye and Chance would have been living there. Not as much information as a newspaper offers, but lots of flavor.

WP_Almanac

An almanac, if you can find one for the correct year, is a great way to  spice up your writing. This one had “receipts” (recipes) and home remedies along with advertisements. There were even a few jokes, some of which actually withstood the test of time and were still humorous.

Imagine how much more real your characters will seem if they spout the latest  notions or head for the store to purchase the latest patent medicine.

What’s the weirdest medical treatment you’ve ever heard about?

 

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