1964 – Woman Anonymously Mails Boyfriend $500 (Footnote) Published on March 14, 2023 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage A 19-year-old had the brilliant idea of mailing her boyfriend $500, thinking he would use it to marry her. It did not go as planned...Click to Read More...
1937 – Dog Found to Have Ring Lost Three Years Earlier (Footnote) Published on March 10, 2023 Posted in: Animals & Pets, Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage For three long years, Mrs. David Hann searched for her wedding ring. Then, one day, her dog spat it up. Where had it been all this time?Click to Read More...
1967 – Dead Elephant Her Valentine Published on March 7, 2023 Posted in: Animals & Pets, Love & Marriage, Tidbits Would you give a dead baby elephant to your significant other for Valentine's Day? Well, this Oregon man did...Click to Read More...
A Severed Relationship – Podcast #192 Published on March 6, 2023 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Podcast Ouch!!! The ghastly true story of Bertha Boronda who, in 1907, took a straight razor and sliced off her husband Frank’s penis. Did he survive?Click to Read More...
1930 – Kissing Ban Proposed (Footnote) Published on March 3, 2023 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage A 10-year ban on kissing was proposed to slow the spread of tuberculosis. Could it work?Click to Read More...
1957 – Doctor’s Stained-Glass Struggle Against Daughter’s Marriage Published on February 28, 2023 Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Love & Marriage, Tidbits A man objects to his daughter's marriage to her high school teacher by hurling stones at St. Patrick's cathedral's stained-glass windows.Click to Read More...
1928 – Couple Waits 60 Years to Marry Published on February 24, 2023 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage It's never too late to marry one's sweetheart, even if they have to wait 60 years to do so.Click to Read More...
1904 – The Match Head Man: A Strange Tale of Addiction Published on February 21, 2023 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Tidbits A woman complains that her husband has been eating match heads since their honeymoon and wants to know what can be done about it.Click to Read More...
1927 – Every Kiss Takes 3 Minutes From Lovers’ Life Span (Footnote) Published on February 17, 2023 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage, Science, Technology & Medicine Can kissing really shorten one's life? That's what students at Western State College concluded.Click to Read More...
Retrocast #15 – Podcast #191 Published on February 14, 2023 Posted in: Love & Marriage, Podcast, Retrocasts A man who eats match heads, every kiss supposedly knocks 3 minutes off of your life, a couple waits 60 years to marry, a 10-year-ban is proposed to curb the spread of tuberculosis, and much more!Click to Read More...
1934 – Wife Snores in Morse Code Published on February 2, 2023 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Love & Marriage, Tidbits Lloyd Copley claimed that his wife Leila snored in Morse code as an attempt to signal a lover outside of their home.Click to Read More...
1955 – Wife Teed Off At Husband (Footnote) Published on December 26, 2022 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Holidays & Celebrations, Humor, Love & Marriage Lew Luquire made the mistake of not getting home in time after playing a round of golf. His wife decided to get even.Click to Read More...
1885: The Cake Bewitched Him (Footnote) Published on August 8, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Crime & Punishment, Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage A man elopes with another man's wife and is arrested. He blames it on her delicious cake!Click to Read More...
1946 – Baby Delivered Between Floors (Footnote) Published on July 22, 2022 Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage No one ever wants to get stuck in an elevator, especially while giving birth. That happened to a Chattanooga woman...Click to Read More...
Footnote – 1935: Cake Still Good After 35 Years Published on June 10, 2022 Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Love & Marriage, Tidbits Would you eat a 35-year-old piece of wedding cake? Frederika Weber did just that it was surprisingly still good.Click to Read More...