Footnote – 1939: A Surprise In A Bottle Published on February 16, 2022 Posted in: Animals & Pets, Footnotes to History, Tidbits Tom Gilroy can teach you an important lesson: Don't ever stick your finger on a bottle that has a wasp in it it!Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1936: Failed to Pay Alimony Published on February 8, 2022 Posted in: Footnotes to History Anna Folgert dragged her husband Anthony into a Buffalo court because he had failed to make his alimony payments. Yet, he had receipts...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1953: Man Brings Sink and Daughter Too Published on December 31, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History In 1953, 4-year-old Joan Williams got her finger stuck in the kitchen sink. Dad showed up to the hospital with the sink still attached to Joan.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1950: Teachers Demonstrate Film-Strip Projector Published on December 28, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History Hard-to-believe, but the filmstrip projector was once considered state-of-the-art technology for the classroom.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1949: High Flying Car Published on December 7, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History In December of 1949, Raymond Boyle used the blade of a snowplow to take flight in his car.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1967: Man Never Intended to Rob Bank Published on November 12, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History A January 19, 1967 article in the Indianapolis News describes how Richard Irving Clark inadvertently attempted to rob a Calgary bank. Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1949: Freak Fire Published on November 9, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History A story in the December 13, 1949 issue of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin describes how a box of cookies started a house fire. Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1938: Ceylon Man Claims Fish Milked Cow Published on October 26, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History Have you ever heard of a fish milking a cow? A Sandusky, Michigan man claims that it is true!Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1935: Phone Girl Hurt in Freak Auto Accident Published on October 19, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History In 1935, Josephine Morgan got out of her car and was knocked unconscious in a very unusual way.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1952: Dammed Missouri Valley Book Disappears in Flood Published on October 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Humor, Tidbits A patron was unable to return the book The Dammed Missouri Valley to his local library because the river had taken it away in a flood.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1947: Lazy Man Makes Tough Job Simple Published on October 8, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits Clarence E. Bleicher, president of the Chrysler Corp.'s De Soto division, told the US Senate's Labor Commission how he solves tough jobs at his plant.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1936: Mother Has Leap Year Babies Published on October 1, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage, Tidbits In 1936, Mrs. Ralph E, Hansen gave birth to her second child born on leap day - February 29th.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1928: Husband Refuses to Buy His Wife False Teeth Published on September 24, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Tidbits In 1928, Mathias Blau was in a Chicago courtroom because he had his wife's teeth pulled and refused to purchase dentures for her.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1914: Speaking English Deforms the Mouth Published on September 18, 2021 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits In 1914, Lord Ashbourne described to an audience how the speaking of English deformed the human jaw.Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1957: Helicopter Melon Thief Published on September 12, 2021 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Footnotes to History In June 1957, a helicopter landed in a Brawley, California watermelon patch and stole three melons before taking off again.Click to Read More...