Do you remember Buster Brown shoes? I do. I also remember watching the Buster Brown TV show ... Smilin' Ed's Gang and later Andy's Gang. The shoes were "special." Back in those days I went to Catholic school and the nun's required us to wear shoes ... I mean real shoes ... "oxfords" we called them. Mom bought us Buster Brown shoes 'cause they would last the whole year! The advertising line for Buster Brown was: Hi! I'm Buster Brown. I live in a shoe.  That's my dog Tige. He lives in there too! The Brown S hoe C ompany has been around for over 130 years. Today they also market Famous Footwear and Naturalizers, and they are a contract manufacturer for other shoe brands.  But they are most well-known for the Buster Brown line of shoes. In 190 2, cartoonist Richard Outcault introduced a new comic strip character, a mischievous little rich boy named Buster Brown and his dog Tige. Two years later, at the 1904 St. Louis W...

I was doing some family history research in newspapers f ro m Hawaii circa 1900 and found these ads. I thought these were k ind of interesting ... so I thought I'd pass them along. Congo Gnat Oil? (1902) "Swell Hats" for t he well-dressed Hawaiian Victorian lady (1900) Cannot figure who is more the dandy ... the poodle or the gent? (1894) Seems like you can still buy these in Hawaii today (1900) Cheap Fashion ... 1900 style Wine ... Vintage 1902 ... the finest tonic and invigorant! FYI: I research old newspaper on a Library of Congress website: Chronicling America . It has digitized newspapers from 1836 to 1922, and a directory of newspapers as far back as 1670. Great research resource.