Extra! Extra!: Goldfish Are All the Rage

April 1930: Are you still keeping your pet goldfish in a plain ol' glass bowl?

You most certainly have goldfish (or want them badly) at this time, since they are quite "in the vogue," Nancy Hart writes in her "Hints for the Home" column published in the Dakota County Tribune on April 4, 1930.

But in 1930, those who are really trendy are moving past the customary glass globe-shaped bowls, Hart explains.

Glass jars, bowls that swung from the ceiling or were mounted on the wall, iridescent colored glass and metal stands all make goldfish displays "more attractive than they ever were before," she suggests.

And yet another (possibly questionable) idea:

"You know, don't you, that there are supposedly harmless liquids which you may dissolve in the water in a fish globe to tint the water? You may have blue or green, red or yellow tinted water."

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Editor's note: Photos 2 and 3 are enlarged, split images of the entire column in photo 1 for easier reading.