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Retrocast #18 – Podcast #199

This episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following:

Question of the Day: When was the coin-operated pay telephone invented?

Retrosponsor: Forever Yours Candy Bar

Tidbits:

He Was Born Somewhere… (1903)

He Lost His Temper and Found His Voice (1943)

Teenagers Steal Airplane (1959)

Footnotes to History:

Dress Made of Postage Stamps (1906)

Message in a Bottle Found Near Seattle (1920)

Deer Stabs Man and Evens Score (1938)

Horn Honks If Cab Exceeds 35 MPH (1943)

Baby Slides Down Coal Chute and Falls Into River (1959)

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