Search
The Rare & Early Newspapers Hobby

Receive the Newsletter

Buy Historic Newspapers

-
Recent Posts
Most Viewed Post
Recent Comments
- October Newsletter (2025) – Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers… : History's Newsstand Blog on The reason I collected it: a single-focus newspaper…
- GuyHeilenman on First use of the term “Columbia”…
- GuyHeilenman on Nobody like me, everybody hates me… 1863…
- MikeyB on Who’s Who in Newspapers? Citizen Genêt edition…
- Dogluver on Nobody like me, everybody hates me… 1863…
Blogroll
Categories
Archives
Tags
18th Century 19th century 20th century 1700's 1800's 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination baseball black americana catalog Catalog announcements civil war collecting newspapers Confederate Food for Thought George Washington Great Headlines harper's weekly historic newspapers holidays humor humorous illustrated newspapers Inventions Jewish journalism Judaica just for fun literature London newsletter newspapers old newspapers old west politics President Lincoln Presidents rare newspapers religion Revolutionary War slavery sports war of 1812 www.rarenewspapers.com
Definition of “half drunk” and “whole drunk”…
July 4, 2009 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
The Massachusetts Spy newspaper of Worcester, dated July 21, 1830, includes in interesting tidbit on the intoxication levels of four young surgeons in London.
Filed under: Collecting Newspapers, Pre Civil War, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: humor, humorous, reading newspapers