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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.

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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!

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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...

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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.

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1921: Bride Dumps Groom for Minister

Published on April 15, 2022

Posted in: Love & Marriage, Tidbits

A Birmingham, Alabama woman dumped her fiancé at the alter after she confessed her love for the minister who was to marry the couple.

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Wife Arrives 36 Years Later

Published on January 14, 2022

Posted in: Love & Marriage, Tidbits

After 36 years, a Chinese man living in Chicago finally had his wish come true: he was able to see his wife.

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Proud Father Kidnaps Baby

Published on November 23, 2021

Posted in: Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Tidbits

On February 22, 1911, staff at the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home and Hospital in Brooklyn, NY frantically searched for newborn Evelyn Erickson.

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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.

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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.

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72-Year-Old Woman Marries 20-Year-Old Man

Published on September 22, 2021

Posted in: Love & Marriage, Tidbits

In 1926, 72-year-old Mary E. Mouring married 20-year-old Roy Hinton Matthews in Newport News, Virginia. Would the marriage last?

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Two Worlds Collide – Podcast #153

Published on July 29, 2021

Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Hoaxes, Love & Marriage, Podcast, Schools & Education

In 1932, the office of Redondo Beach school superintendent Elliott B. Thomas was destroyed and he had mysteriously disappeared. Was he dead or alive? Or was something else going on?

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Footnote – 1946: Shortage of Marriage Licenses

Published on July 23, 2021

Posted in: Footnotes to History, Love & Marriage, Tidbits

It was reported in 1946 that there was a shortage of marriage license blanks in Hagerstown. Maryland due, in part, to men returning from the war.

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England’s Oldest Woman Seeks New Husband

Published on July 15, 2021

Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Love & Marriage, Tidbits

In 1924, 106-year-old Betsy Pennick of Tiptree, England was in search of a new husband. She was in her late teens when Victoria became Queen.

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A Blind Eye – Helen Vasco – Podcast #151

Published on June 28, 2021

Posted in: Forgotten History, Law & Order, Love & Marriage, Podcast, Science, Technology & Medicine

In 1933, Helen Vasko was diagnosed with a malignant eye tumor that threatened her life. Her parents would not consent to surgery and the case ended up in court. Find out which side won this landmark case.

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Isabel McHie – A Fortune to the Dogs – Podcast #150

Published on May 29, 2021

Posted in: Death and Murder, Love & Marriage, Money & Financial, Podcast

When Isabel McHie was pulled off of a train in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1935, she confirmed to the world that she truly was eccentric. It was a reputation that continued long after she died.

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