Here's one I trully love, ca 1861, and you will see it today on our city streets.

George Martin

Cheap Blankets

Newspapers blankets are coming into vogue. They are no joke. A correspondent of one of our exchanges thus refers to the matter: “I have recently heard much about the value of newspapers as a substitute for blankets, and have considered the statement to be apocryphal. But, last evening, I was induced to make the experiment. I took four full sized newspapers and pasted them together at the edges, making one sheet the size of a blanket. I then removed the blankets from my bed, and place the newspapers sheet between the one remaining blanket, and the counterpane. The result was a comfortable night’s sleep, without any feeling of cold. I pledge my word to you, gentlemen, that this is literally true; and my obbject (sic) in making the communication is, that through the medium of your paper, the fact may be generally circulated; for it is no trifling matter to the poor to know that they can outlay of a few pennies they can supply themselves with a comfortable bed covering through the winter. One of the printers connected with the Advocate office has also made a trial of the matter, and says it works like a charm.”