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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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.

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Retrocast #3 – Podcast #156

• Published on September 15, 2021

• Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

A 72-year-old woman who married a 20-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl arrested for cursing, a woman who had some run-ins with modern appliances, speaking English deforms the mouth, a husband who refused to buy his wife false teeth, and more!

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Saved From Nazi Firing Squad by Freak of Fate

• Published on September 3, 2021

• Posted in: Escape and Survival, Tidbits

In 1944, Majlech Elencwajg stood with many others before a Nazi firing squad. He miraculously survived the shooting.

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Mother Loans Her Son to a Stranger

• Published on August 27, 2021

• Posted in: Crime & Punishment, Law & Order, Tidbits

Mrs. Florence Parker made the mistake of loaning her son Billy to a woman who had lost her son. Mrs. Parker would not see Billy for five months...

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Runaway Boy Couldn’t Learn Latin

• Published on August 20, 2021

• Posted in: Schools & Education, Tidbits

In 1916, 15-year-old Rolla Bostwick ran away from home because he was unable to master Latin.

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Retrocast #2 – Podcast #154

• Published on August 15, 2021

• Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

Boy runs away because he can't master Latin, a mother who loaned her son to a stranger, a man who survived a Nazi firing squad, cows killed by lightning, man's leg broken three times, 200 hog call records stolen, a helicopter melon thief, & more!

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Footnote – 1952: Parrot In Tree Cries ‘I Like Ike’

• Published on August 10, 2021

• Posted in: Animals & Pets, Footnotes to History, Tidbits

In 1952, a parrot escaped from a London apartment and took to a tree outside of Parliament. It had been taught to say "I Like Ike."

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Footnote – 1949: Farmer Joe Solves Vacation Milking by Taking Cow Along

• Published on August 7, 2021

• Posted in: Animals & Pets, Footnotes to History, Tidbits

Farmer Joe Trevethan was unable to take a vacation of twenty years because he needed to milk his cow. So, he took the cow with him.

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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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5 Records for Admittance to Dance

• Published on July 21, 2021

• Posted in: Forgotten History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits

A dance being held at the Urban Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh had an unusual admittance price: 5 phonograph records.

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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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Footnote – 1933: Surgeons Take Table Fork from Girl’s Stomach

• Published on July 14, 2021

• Posted in: Bizarre & Oddities, Footnotes to History, Science, Technology & Medicine, Tidbits

It seems nearly impossible but a girl in 1933 swallowed a full-size table fork. Surgery would be needed...

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Retrocast #1 – Podcast #152

• Published on July 14, 2021

• Posted in: Podcast, Retrocasts, Tidbits

A 106-year-old woman seeks a husband, 5 phonograph records is admission to a dance, Australia gives the US an albino kangaroo, Johnny Cash promoting the Home Equipment Co., A country could be 49th US state, and more!

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Footnote – 1914: Helps Indict Himself

• Published on July 13, 2021

• Posted in: Footnotes to History, Law & Order, Tidbits

On January 24, 1914, James Severn had to sit on a grand jury and deliberate over his own indictment. Is that really legal?

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