1903--the Opposite of Today

So apparently it was preferable back in the day to put some meat on your bones. This was from the Daily True American and was an ad for an elixir that would "put some flesh on you", and was not for fat people. Just skinny people.

Snake Bite and Negro Beating/Almost Lynching (1914)

From The Dispatch, August of 1914:

In 1903 Anything Made The Paper

From the Daily True American, 1903. Check out the 2nd blurb.