The Phrenological Journal & Haunted Typebox Blog » ephemera http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog Dispatches from the Lost Hat Department Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:55:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Execution, 1928 Style http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/03/14/execution-1928-style/ http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/03/14/execution-1928-style/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:56:56 +0000 Haunted Typeboxer http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/?p=102 Here, from “The Volume Library” of 1928 (A Concise, Graded Repository of Practical and Cultural Knowledge Designed for both Instruction and Reference), is a useful bit of information on the methods of execution practiced in different countries, as well as signifying the publicity of the executions. Of particular note is the technological advancement shown by the United States.

Perhaps even more interesting is the item’s placement in the miscellany: between “Echo” and “Expectation of Life.”

 

Methods of Execution by Country (1928)

Methods of Execution by Country (1928)

]]> http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/03/14/execution-1928-style/feed/ 1 What You Could Do Today http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/02/11/what-you-could-do-today/ http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/02/11/what-you-could-do-today/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:23:02 +0000 Haunted Typeboxer http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/?p=36 If today was 1932.

If you were stationed at Pearl Harbor.

 

Boxing Program, 1932

Boxing Program, 1932

]]> http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/02/11/what-you-could-do-today/feed/ 0