Pic Today 6/17/14

DISCOVERING OLD

POST CARDS, MUSIC & BOOKS

Finding old text books, post cards

and sheet music in a country curiosity shop

can show how much times have changed.

Before computers, before calculators,

before adding machines . . .

there was a handy reference book

for households, farms, tradesmen, mechanics:

The World's READY RECKONER,

an invaluable assistant for calculating

practical solutions to almost everything . . .

coming up with an amount and value

of any number of calculations:

board feet of lumber, interest tables, 

dollars and cents, tax tables,

decimal values of fractions, the amount of feed

for your hogs during the summer season.

"Saves time, money & worry

with this rapid calculator."

(The world was a simpler place in 1900.)