The Vault
 

Slate has a history blog called the Vault. Here are a very cool group of WWI posters which have a lot to say about the rural character of US soldiers bitd.

Its interesting to me that a lot of rural volunteers today would not recognize those smells since they are probably more likely to have come from a rural trailer park than a functioning farm.

Flypaper? How many will know what the fuck it is, much less how it smells. :facepalm:
Definitely out of date.

I know what it is and what it smells like. But then I am out of date.

Sigh. I also must confess to being out of date. I definitely know what flypaper is and what it smells like.

Wait, do people really not know what flypaper is???

I know what it is, but only from cartoons.

No one spends time in horse stables anymore? Or in farmhouses, or dairy barns (the old-fashioned type), or ...

damn. If this is out of date we're in trouble. :(

O L D we have it.

It's gross. Back before we had indoor plumbing at the family lake cottage, we had half a dozen rolls of fly paper hanging down from the rafters, and flyswatters everywhere. Tons of flies. I also remember at least a few times being really sick there when I was a lad. Now with a septic system, the flies have vanished.

You can still buy "fly paper"... Home Depot and other stores have it for about $2.50