I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.

Dominate your finances.

Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed.

Drowning in green.

Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.

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make money work for you. This is Pessimists Archive, a history show about why people resist new

things. I'm Jason Pfeiffer. You know what I love most about old newspapers? It's the mix of

stories. Look at any one page from any one day, and the collection there tells you a bigger story

about how people felt at the time. What was important to them? What scared them? For example,

let's pick, oh, page 8 of the Topeka State Journal of Topeka, Kansas,

from July 22, 1899. There's a story about Chinese cannibals, supposedly eating a Mexican child,

and another one about a horse race where the winning horse was named Wandering Jew. There's a

report of a diarrhea epidemic that's sweeping through South Florida, and I grew up in South Florida, so that sounds about right.

And there's an ad for the cleaning brand Sepolio, which says, quote, a handful of dirt may be a houseful of shame, end quote.

But the most interesting report on this page is about a woman identified only as Second Avenue Lady.

It's a short piece of writing, just nine paragraphs long, reprinted from the Detroit Free Press,

and it paints this scene of a woman who's telling her friends and neighbors what it's like to ride an automobile.

Because this was a very rare experience at the time.

The earliest versions of cars had only hit the streets a few

years earlier, and the Model T Ford wouldn't come along until 1908. Again, this newspaper story

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