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> “An alarming amount of insanity occurs in the new prairie States [sic] among farmers and their wives,” wrote journalist Eugene Smalley in The Atlantic in 1893
by throw0101a 4y ago
> “An alarming amount of insanity occurs in the new prairie States [sic] among farmers and their wives,” wrote journalist Eugene Smalley in The Atlantic in 1893.
Meta: I find it cool that The Atlantic was around at that time and reporting on current events, and that it's still kicking around:
* https://www.theatlantic.com https://www.theatlantic.com
Not many places can have "/magazine/archive/18xx/" it its URL.
- ThinkingGuy 4y agoHarper's Magazine was founded in 1850, 7 years before The Atlantic, and is also still around. Their entire archive is available on their website (to subscribers only).
- Archelaos 4y agoScientific American was first published in 1845. A different type of periodical, though.
- permo-w 4y agoin terms of old Western companies, it seems to be beer, tobacco and news that survives the longest. I believe Japan has much, much older restaurants and hotels, along with companies like Nintendo
- toomanybeersies 4y ago> along with companies like Nintendo The western equivalent would probably be Nokia, which was founded in 1865 as a paper manufacturer.