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Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True looks for the bathroom (October 10, 1917) (lemmy.world)
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Printed 107 years today in the Detroit Times. Image contrast/brightness modified, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Houses without bathrooms might use an outhouse instead.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the 20th century, Rolando. Let us have indoor plumbing.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most people outside of large cities didn't have indoor toilets around 1900

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure Everett is in a city.