{"id":52387,"date":"2019-09-03T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=52387"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:01:15","slug":"wait-they-said-that-in-1795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wait-they-said-that-in-1795.html","title":{"rendered":"Wait \u2013 They Said That in 1795?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a phrase we hear all the time \u2013 \u201cgive us a call\u201d \u2013 but I wasn\u2019t expecting to see it in a Connecticut newspaper published in 1795.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52391\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farmers-chronicle-newspaper-1228-1795-dry-goods-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farmers-chronicle-newspaper-1228-1795-dry-goods-1.png\" alt=\"An article about a dry goods store, Farmers Chronicle newspaper article 28 December 1795\" width=\"416\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farmers-chronicle-newspaper-1228-1795-dry-goods-1.png 416w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/farmers-chronicle-newspaper-1228-1795-dry-goods-1-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Farmers Chronicle (Danbury, Connecticut), 28 December 1795, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cGive us a call\u201d is a phrase we\u2019ve heard all our lives, indicating that the hearer should call us on the phone. Today we might say \u201cText us,\u201d \u201cPing me,\u201d or \u201cKeep in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clearly in 1795 \u201cgive us a call\u201d meant to literally call on someone, to stop by and visit. When visiting, people often brought calling cards with their name and perhaps contact information. You see advertisements by printers offering to print these early business cards with simply a person\u2019s name on them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52397\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/le-whig-de-st-landry-newspaper-1205-1844-visiting-cards.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/le-whig-de-st-landry-newspaper-1205-1844-visiting-cards.png\" alt=\"An article about visiting cards, Le Whig de St Landry newspaper article 5 December 1844\" width=\"466\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/le-whig-de-st-landry-newspaper-1205-1844-visiting-cards.png 466w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/le-whig-de-st-landry-newspaper-1205-1844-visiting-cards-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Le Whig de St Landry (Opelousas, Louisiana), 5 December 1844, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By 1854 the \u201ccarte de visite,\u201d with a photograph mounted on a card stock, was patented.<\/p>\n<p>The more things change \u2013 the more they stay the same.<\/p>\n<p>Old newspapers, such as those in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&s_referrer=social&s_siteloc=blog&s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&kbid=69919&pq=1&prebuy=no&intver=&CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, tell us not only the stories of our ancestors\u2019 lives, but the everyday words they spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp finds the phrase \u201cgive us a call\u201d in a 1795 newspaper \u2013 long before the telephone was invented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,2020],"class_list":["post-52387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/illustration-0903-2019-featured-graphic-george-washington.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}