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- Retrocast 16 – Podcast #193
- Useless Information Listener Survey
- A Severed Relationship – Podcast #192
- Retrocast #15 – Podcast #191
- Marty, the Marijuana Mouse – Podcast #190
- 1964 – Woman Anonymously Mails Boyfriend $500 (Footnote)
- 1937 – Dog Found to Have Ring Lost Three Years Earlier (Footnote)
- 1967 – Dead Elephant Her Valentine
- 1930 – Kissing Ban Proposed (Footnote)
- 1957 – Doctor’s Stained-Glass Struggle Against Daughter’s Marriage
- 1928 – Couple Waits 60 Years to Marry
- 1904 – The Match Head Man: A Strange Tale of Addiction
- 1927 – Every Kiss Takes 3 Minutes From Lovers’ Life Span (Footnote)
- 1975 – Man’s Car Stolen, Picked Up By His Own Vehicle (Footnote)
- 1962 – Come On, Baby, Don’t Do the Twist! (Footnote)
- 1941 – Launch Ship With Bananas
- 1934 – Wife Snores in Morse Code
- 1950 – Dentist Pulls Tooth, Patient Jumps Out Window (Footnote)
- 1915 – That Must Have Been One Hungry Cat
- 1949 – Don’t Come Back-He Didn’t! (Footnote)
- 1938 – Fishing Trip Accidents Send Family to Hospital (Footnote)
- Retrocast #14 – Podcast #189
- The Newburyport Anti-Inflation Plan – Podcast #188
- 1955 – Wife Teed Off At Husband (Footnote)
- 1972 – Santa Claus Exists (Footnote)
- 1965 – Santa Zapped By Power Line (Footnote)
- 1960 – Christmas Cards Arrive 20 Years Late (Footnote)
- 1952 – New Roof for Christmas (Footnote)
- 1949 – Could Beggar Be Santa Claus? (Footnote)
- Christmas Retrocast – Podcast #187
- 1949 – Boy Wishes for Stone for Mother’s Grave (Footnote)
- 1947 – Gift Wrapper Raps in Vain (Footnote)
- 1920 – Christmas Cactus Theft Epidemic (Footnote)
- 1915 – Bank Accounts of 41,000 Schoolchildren Saved (Footnote)
- Bad Apples #5 – The Bishop’s Wife – Podcast #186
- 200 Years of Twas the Night – Podcast #185
- The Cryptanalyst (Part 3) – Podcast #184
- The Cryptanalyst (Part 2) – Podcast #183
- The Cryptanalyst (Part 1) – Podcast #182
- The Great Los Angeles Air Raid – Podcast #181
- YesterCast #1 – November 22, 1963 – Podcast #180
- Bad Apples #4 – Gaslight – Podcast #179
- 1961 – A Stewed Duck Is Too Saucy to Suit Cops (Footnote)
- 1954 – Roscoe Goes to Calaboose to Escape TV at Home (Footnote)
- 1948 – New Pill Bans That Fear of Trip to Dentist (Footnote)
- 1964 – Unable to Find Affordable Housing, Student Sleeps in Air Vent
- 1926 – Fire Company Called To Put Out a Sunset (Footnote)
- Russell Sage: The Meanest Miser in the Land – Podcast #178
- 1954 – Smog Turns Necktie a Bluish Purple
- 1885: The Cake Bewitched Him (Footnote)
- 1922 – Dead Woman Sits Up in Coffin
- Retrocast #12 – Podcast #177
- 1950 – Dogs Shoot Owners (Footnote)
- 1949 – Little Boy Finds Toilet Seat Not Quite His Size (Footnote)
- 1946 – Baby Delivered Between Floors (Footnote)
- The Rise & Fall of the Celestial Comet – Podcast #176
- 1957 – Ottawa Newspaper Finds Pet Parakeet
- 1934 – Skids Out Window on Soap, Falls Into Sand (Footnote)
- 1927 – Unidentified Body Found by Hartford Police
- 1926 – Falls 50 Feet, Only Suffers Bruises (Footnote)
- 1925 – Mystery Man Speaks an Unknown Language
- Retrocast #11 – Podcast #175
- Footnote – 1956: Driver Grabs At Bird, Hits New Police Car
- Footnote – 1947: Doctor Wins Bet but Client Dies After Paying Off
- 1952 – Akron Woman Loses Car
- Almost Over the Hump – Podcast #174
- Footnote – 1937: Fall on Ice Starts Blaze in His Pants
- 1949 – Theater Popcorn Ban Proposed
- Footnote – 1935: Cake Still Good After 35 Years
- 1943 – Sliced Bread Banned by the United States
- Footnote – 1927: Fly Swatter Used To Lose Weight
- Retrocast #10 – Podcast #173
- Henry Ford’s Peace Ship – Podcast #172
- Footnote – 1950: Dog Saves Lives of 60 Men College Students
- Footnote – 1949: Nimrod Gives Bizarre Excuse
- Footnote – 1935: Tarantula in Britches
- Footnote – 1934: Cat Becomes Flaming Torch
- Arbor Day Turns 150! – Podcast #171
- Footnote – 1911: Jealous Husband Guards Wife With Rattlesnakes
- 1942: Pigeons Sabotage Tires
- 1931: Mistaken Identity Finally Ends
- 1921: Bride Dumps Groom for Minister
- Retrocast #9 – Podcast #170
- Vintage Ad – 1956: Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight
- Retrograph – 1906: Miles Bros. Moving Pictures
- Vintage Ad – 1909: Peterman’s Roach Food
- RetroRewind – 1912: Real Titanic Footage
- 1960 – Custer’s Roaring Last Stand
- The Father of Voice Radio – Reginald Fessenden – Podcast #169
- Retrograph – 1918: Red Cross During Pandemic
- 1964: A Painful Mourning
- RetroRewind – 1939: New York World’s Fair
- Footnote – 1974: Unusual Theft
- Comic – 1960: Raise Allowance Petition
- Retrograph – 1926: Miss America Gets a Permanent Wave
- Footnote – 1959: Guinea Pigs Stolen
- RetroRewind – 1952: First Today Show Episode
- Footnote – 1952: Grab Pants, Said Sign
- Vintage Ad – 1908: Hall’s Hair Renewer
- Retrograph – 1909: Women Bathing
- The Case of the Hollow Nickel – Podcast #168
- RetroRewind – 1950: DeSoto Automobile Ad
- Footnote – 1936: Coughs Up Roll
- Vintage Ad – 1945: Free Slide Rule
- Retrograph – 1964: African American Protester Arrested
- 1936: A Human Target
- RetroRewind – 1963: Bullwinkle on Hitchhiking
- Footnote – 1933: Bandit Steals Golden Smile
- Vintage Ad – 1975: Star Trek View-Master 3-D Pictures
- Retrograph – 1948: Dewey Defeats Truman
- 1930: Live Baby Auctioned Off
- Retrocast #8 – Podcast #167
- Footnote – 1950: Pitcher Falls Off Bench
- Vintage Ad – 1936: Beech-Nut Gum
- Retrograph – 1939: Abandoned Mail Order House
- Footnote – 1949: 14 Tonsils Taken In Family Surgery
- RetroRewind – 1972: Leggy Dolls
- 1952: Boy Falls 1,500 Feet and Survives
- Vintage Ad – 1909: Cawston Ostrich Farm
- Footnote – 1939: A Surprise In A Bottle
- The Eddie Cantor Peace Prize – Podcast #166
- RetroRewind – 1952: Wonder Bread
- 1950: Man’s Life Saved by Flagpole
- Comic – 1955: Case Closed by Joey Oakes
- Retrograph – 1957: Butcher Milton Joseph, Jr.
- Footnote – 1936: Failed to Pay Alimony
- RetroRewind – 1954: Betty White Geritol Ad
- 1935: Baby Born in Deep Water Well
- Vintage Ad – 1952: Di-chloricide for Moths
- Retrograph – 1942: Japanese Americans Forcibly Evacuated
- Footnote – 1926: Woman Hatches Silkworm Eggs on Person in Experiment
- Retrocast #7 – Podcast #165
- Anti-Roach Flour
- Ad – 1906: Washburne Fasteners
- Retrograph – 1947: Bodybuilder Gene Jantzen & Family
- Arsenic Biscuits
- RetroRewind – 1976 Bionic Woman Bionic Beauty Salon
- Parachute Failed to Open
- Comic – 1947: Grandpa’s Second Childhood
- Retrograph – 1963: Three Generations of Martin Luther King
- Extracting Gold From Sand
- RetroRewind – 1975: George Harrison’s Pirate Song
- Wife Arrives 36 Years Later
- The Glass House Girl – Podcast #164
- Retrograph – 1909: People’s Drug Store
- Dying Navy Officer’s Wish Fulfilled
- RetroRewind – 1981: DeLorean TV Commercial
- Becomes Doctor after 45 Years
- Ad – 1949: Raise Hamsters
- Retrograph – 1930: US Bureau of Prohibition
- Sucked into Jet Engine
- Bad Apples #3 – Sunset Boulevard – Podcast #163
- RetroRewind – 1976: Square Hardboiled Eggs
- Happy New Year!
- Footnote – 1953: Man Brings Sink and Daughter Too
- Comic – 1943: Kissing Booth
- Retrograph – 1860: Abraham Lincoln
- Footnote – 1950: Teachers Demonstrate Film-Strip Projector
- RetroRewind – 1860: First Recording of Human Voice
- 1944: Christmas Greeting Card
- Footnote – 1958: Christmases Have Merry Christmas
- Footnote – 1953: Absent-Minded Santa Claus
- How To Fill A Giant Christmas Stocking?
- Footnote – 1949: Ontario Boy Given Snake by Museum
- Reindeer Nips Boy’s Finger
- Footnote – 1948: Early Greeting Might Be Said in Bad Taste
- Ad – 1902: Santa Claus at Ellison Bros.
- A Very Unusual Christmas Tree
- Ad – 1893: Santa Claus Soap
- Retrocast #6 – Podcast #162
- RetroRewind – 1898: First Christmas Film Ever Made
- Footnote – 1937: Santa Claus Has Trouble Getting Down This Chimney
- RetroRewind – 1934: Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Footage
- Einstein Offers Student Incorrect Math Advice
- Ad – 1908: Clipper Clip Paper Clip
- Retrograph – 1915: R.R. Conklin’s Auto Bus
- Footnote – 1949: High Flying Car
- RetroRewind – 1957: Kodak 300 Slide Projector
- Mother Jailed for Cooking Woodpecker
- Ad – 1953: Crax-Ezy Boiled-Egg Opener
- Retrograph – 1921: Revenge of Tarzan Movie
- Tom McGee’s Back on the Chain Gang – Podcast #161
- RetroRewind – 1952: I Like Ike Campaign Spot
- Footnote – 1926: Snake Joins Woman in Bath
- Comic – 1958: The Title of My Composition is More Pay for Teachers
- Retrograph – 1933: Harriet Hankins at Home
- Proud Father Kidnaps Baby
- RetroRewind – 1939: Rice Krispies Breakfast Pals
- Footnote – 1902: Bride Is Her Own Grandmother
- Ad – 1953: Tom Corbett Space Cadet Invisible Helmet
- Retrograph – 1961: Harry Crosby
- Retrocast #5 – Podcast #160
- Ad – 1957: Kodak 300 Slide Projector
- Retrorewind – 1966: Transogram Swing Wing Toy
- Footnote – 1967: Man Never Intended to Rob Bank
- Ad – 1929: X-Ray Kathoscope Pocket Detector
- Retrograph – 1945: Newspapers Announce Death of FDR
- Footnote – 1949: Freak Fire
- RetroRewind – 1960s: Trik-Trak Toy Cars
- Alice Cooper’s Panties Banned
- Comic – 1944: Just fine. How’s everything with you?
- Retrograph – 1970: Deborah Harry of Blondie
- Footnote – 1940: ‘Perfect Host’ Gets Prison Term
- RetroRewind – 1950: Let’s Make a Sandwich
- Lingerie Rummage Sale Fails
- Ad – 1953: Du Pont Baby in Cellophane
- The Forgotten Man – Archibald Herron – Podcast #159
- Retrograph – 1941: Lower Manhattan
- Footnote – 1938: Ceylon Man Claims Fish Milked Cow
- RetroRewind – 1939: Gone With The Wind Premiere in Atlanta
- Corsets Arrested
- Comic – 1957: Are the doors sturdy?
- Retrograph – 1936: Migrant Mother
- Footnote – 1935: Phone Girl Hurt in Freak Auto Accident
- RetroRewind – 1956: Grace Kelly Royal Wedding to Prince Rainer III
- Retrocast #4 – Podcast #158
- Ad – 1938: 450 Miles on a Gallon of Gas
- Retrograph – 1937: Unemployed Miners in Scott’s Run, West Virginia
- Footnote – 1952: Dammed Missouri Valley Book Disappears in Flood
- RetroRewind – 1949: Dating Do’s and Dont’s
- Footnote – 1947: Lazy Man Makes Tough Job Simple
- Ad – 1911: Stewart’s Duplex Safety Pins
- Retrograph – 1917: War-Bread Wagon
- A Woman Had Some Run-Ins With Modern Appliances (1957)
- RetroRewind – 1959: Avoiding Parking Tickets
- Footnote – 1936: Mother Has Leap Year Babies
- Ad – 1899: Vestro Bust Developer
- Retrograph – 1900: Chief Joseph, Nez Percé Chief
- Don’t Mess With Minerva Miller – Podcast #157
- 16-Year-Old Girl Jailed for Cursing
- RetroRewind – 1936: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
- Footnote – 1928: Husband Refuses to Buy His Wife False Teeth
- Ad – 1903: Peruna Cures Catarrh
- 72-Year-Old Woman Marries 20-Year-Old Man
- Retrograph – 1938: Vincennes, Indiana Political Signs
- Footnote – 1914: Speaking English Deforms the Mouth
- Retrocast #3 – Podcast #156
- RetroRewind – 1894: Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
- Footnote – 1957: Helicopter Melon Thief
- Comic – 1957: Women From Apes
- Footnote – 1952: 200 Hog Calling Records Stolen
- Footnote – 1949: Just Tell It Like It Is
- Ad – 1899: Cancer Cured with Soothing Balmy Oils
- Saved From Nazi Firing Squad by Freak of Fate
- Lost in the Mountains – Pamela Hollingworth – Podcast #155
- Mother Loans Her Son to a Stranger
- Footnote – 1913: Leg Broken 3 Times in 3 Minutes
- Ad – 1948: Minipoo Dry Shampoo
- Runaway Boy Couldn’t Learn Latin
- Footnote – 1899: 4 Cows Killed by Lightning
- Retrocast #2 – Podcast #154
- Ad – 1972: My Wife Jean is Happy, Pretty & Pregnant
- Albino Kangaroo Given to the United States
- Footnote – 1952: Parrot In Tree Cries ‘I Like Ike’
- Footnote – 1949: Farmer Joe Solves Vacation Milking by Taking Cow Along
- Two Worlds Collide – Podcast #153
- Ad – 1902: Gardner’s Chill Pills Cure
- Footnote – 1946: Shortage of Marriage Licenses
- 5 Records for Admittance to Dance
- England’s Oldest Woman Seeks New Husband
- Footnote – 1933: Surgeons Take Table Fork from Girl’s Stomach
- Retrocast #1 – Podcast #152
- Footnote – 1914: Helps Indict Himself
- Footnote – 1928: Ford Car Mysteriously Receives Telegraph Signals
- A Blind Eye – Helen Vasco – Podcast #151
- Leaves Estate to “Dumb Animals”
- Penned Will on Ladder
- Wrote Will on Petticoat
- Isabel McHie – A Fortune to the Dogs – Podcast #150
- Opted to Elope
- Bad Apples #2 – The Hitch-Hiker – Podcast #149
- Secretly Married 12 Years
- Married Teacher Forced to Resign
- Badman Billy Cook – Podcast #148
- The Tapioca Time Bomb
- Ad – 1933: Cockroach Racing
- Ad – 1912: Acme Anvils
- Birth Control Leases Barred
- Theodore Roosevelt Declares War on the Banana Skin
- The St. Louis Diphtheria Tragedy – Podcast #147
- Giraffes Can’t Speak
- Girls Crash Circus
- Double Your Money by Boiling It
- Ad – 1952: Portable Garage
- Ad – 1919: REO Speedwagon Convertible
- Ad – 1945: Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic Drive
- Ad – 1968: Wolf’s Head Motor Oil
- Ad – 1959: Cushman Scooters
- Ad – 1959: Miller Dynamo Headlamp and Horn Set
- Ad – 1939: Oldsmobile
- Ad – 1936: Essolene Gasoline
- Ad – 1908: Rambler Automobile
- Ad – 1904: Winton – Peerless – Franklin Automobiles
- Ad – 1904: Crescent Motor Cycles
- Ad – 1896: Columbia Bicycles
- Ad – 1891: Phil Klipple’s Carriage Shops
- Ad – 1939: A Nazi Shall Die! – Air Adventures
- Ad – 1947: Dame and Wilson Watch Repair
- Ad – 1959: Linguaphone Learn to Speak French
- Ad – 1915: Brentano’s Book Store
- Ad – 1905: Albany Engraving Co.
- Ad – 1891: Cunnington Groceries, Hardware, and Miners’ Supplies
- Ad – 1953: Walt Disney Peter Pan Admiral TV
- Ad – 1949: Roll-A-Ray Heat Massager
- Ad – 1888: Remington Typewriter
- Ad – 1938: Rand Hair Growth
- Ad – 1962: 8mm Motion Picture Film Projector
- Ad – 1961: Telefunken Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
- Ad – 1949: Texcel Christmas Giftape
- Ad – 1978: Apple Computer Christmas
- Ad – 1949 – Ripon Loafer Sox
- Ad – 1949: Speed Queen Washing Machine
- Ad – 1945: Enger-Kress Leather Billfold Wallets
- Ad – 1963: Holiday on Ice
- Ad – 1951: Lionel Trains
- Ad – 1958: Delaware Flower Shop
- Ad – 1898: Hardy’s 99 Cent Store
- Ad – 1907: Tonsiline
- Ad – 1930: Primset Protruding Ears
- Ad – 1923: Clear-Tone for Pimples
- Ad – 1921: Ferond’s Hair Grower
- Ad – 1918: Bowlegged Straightleg Garter
- Ad – 1918: Renulife Violet Ray
- Ad – 1909: American Ever-Ready Safety Razor
- Ad – 1902: Manly Men
- Ad – 1922: Zip Hair Remover
- Ad – 1923: Dainty-Form Fat Reducing Cream
- Ad – 1905: Mennen’s Borated Talcum Toilet Powder
- Ad – 1901: Vacuum Organ Developer
- Ad – 1886: Dr. Lutz’s Vaginal Bulb Nozzle Syringe
- Ad – 1899: Tinto-Comb Hair Dye
- Ad – 1898: – Hu-Can Hair Tonic
- Comic – 1956: The Girls by Franklin Folger
- Comic – 1949: Cuties by E. Simms Campbell
- Comic – 1948: Election Day Absentee Ballot
- Comic – 1946: Good morning, Transparent Plastic Furniture Company
- Comic – 1966: Airplane Crash
- Ad – 1927: Asbestos Asbestocel
- Ad – 1949: Toastswell Toasters
- Ad – 1949: Electric Faucet Hot Water Heater
- Ad – 1938: Speed Queen Washing Machine
- Ad – 1939: White Lead Paint
- Ad – 1938: WinterKing Coal
- Ad – 1908: Majestic Stove
- Ad – 1900: Sherwin Williams Paint
- Ad – 1892: Postoffice Drugstore Wall Paper
- Ad – 1903: Hills Balcony Dryer
- Ad – 1949: Betty Crocker Cake Mixes
- Ad – 1927: Pabst-ett Cheese
- Ad – 1947: Pepsi Cola
- Ad – 1966: Burger King
- Ad – 1966: Carnation Instant Breakfast
- Ad – 1962: Jolly Green Giant Rag Doll
- Ad – 1958: McDonalds
- Ad – 1954: Milky Way
- Ad – 1941: Kooba Cola
- Ad – 1943: Safe-T Cones Ice Cream Cone
- Ad – 1899: Postum Food Coffee
- Ad – 1937: Fresh-Canned Mushrooms
- Ad – 1935: Own a Potato Chip Factory
- Ad – 1936: Beeman’s Pepsin Chewing Gum
- Ad – 1933: Curtiss Baby Ruth Root Beer Candy
- Ad – 1926: Romance Flour
- Ad – 1907: Korn-Kinks Cereal Ad
- Ad – 1906: Egg-O-See Cereal
- Ad – 1920: Protecto Rubber Sanitary Bloomers
- Ad – 1908: Paris Sock Garters
- Ad – 1908: Man-Tailored Walking Skirt
- Ad – 1908: Mermaid Bathing Bust and Abdominal Supporters
- Ad – 1906: BVD Underwear
- Ad – 1972: Vibra-Bra by American Image
- Ad – 1953: Jail-Jamas
- Ad – 1958: Potato Sack Dress
- Ad – 1905: Saturday Evening Post
- Ad – 1972: MasterCharge Credit Card
- Ad – 1928: Southern Trust Company – 6% Gold Bonds
- Ad – 1904: Oil Stock Bargains
- Ad – 1935: Raise Giant Frogs, American Frog Canning
- The Flip Side of History
- Lindbergh’s Artificial Heart
- Einstein’s Refrigerator
- Ad – 1912: Titanic and Olympic
- Ad – 1903: Dr. Lawrence’ s Vacuum Developer for Debilitated Men
- Ad – 1902: Allen’s Antiseptic Corn Plasters
- Ad – 1900: Perfect Manhood Restored
- Ad – 1873: Epilepsy or Fits
- Ad – 1929: Ful-O-Pep Dry Mash
- Ad – 1972: Who Else Wants a Live Monkey
- Comic – 1945: Hello, Ma… I got the job!
- Comic – 1942: There may be a rubber shortage…
- Comic – 1912: “The Lesson” (Titanic Commentary)
- Comic – 1939: Doris! Do you mean to say we’re through?
- Comic – 1934: The Plumber Keeps Warm in Bed
- Ad – 1945: Thriftway Discount Store
- Ad – 1935: Cullen’s Pet Shop
- Ad – 1910: Fox’s Pet Shop
- Ad – 1940: Snappy Clothes Shop
- Ad – 1902: Munn & Co Patents
- Ad – 1952: Cessna 170
- Ad – 1940: Van Heusen Shirt
- Ad – 1906: Buster Brown Shoes
- Ad – 1912: The Glass Block Store
- Comic – 1954: From Nine to Five
- Comic – 1938: Out Our Way
- Comic – 1951: Room and Board
- Ad – 1959: Apollo Savings & Loan
- Ad – 1954: Velvet Freeze Ice Cream
- Ad – 1948: Renswick Artificial Plastic Eyes
- Ad – 1941: Hotpoint Refrigerator
- Ad – 1948: Montgomery Ward Airline Radio
- Ad – 1918: Every Day Evaporated Milk
- Ad – 1927: Heinz Tomato Ketchup
- Ad – 1929: Majestic Radio
- Ad – 1931: Ever-Ready Safety Razor Blades
- Comic – 1939: All in a Lifetime
- Ad – 1939: Speed Queen Washing Machine
- Ad – 1944: Aurex Hearing Aid
- Ad – 1946: Ben-Gay
- Ad – 1948: Lane Cedar Chests
- Ad – 1949: Weak Glands
- Ad – 1962: Harleysville Insurance
- Ad – 1900: Tholen Brothers Plumbing
- Ad – 1901: Mme A. Ruppert’s Face Bleach
- Ad – 1905: Gillette Safety Razor
- Ad – 1906: Craig’s Heroin Compound
- Ad – 1907: Newbro’s Herpicide Dandruff Treatment
- Ad – 1959: Whitey Cat Food
- Ad – 1923: Rat Bis-Kit
- The Price of a Kiss – Podcast #146
- The 34-Year Nightmare – #1 Most Downloaded Podcast Episode
- The Wrist-Twist Instant Steering System
- Bad Apples #1 – The Best Years of Our Lives – Podcast #145
- Illuminated Tires
- Highway Hi-Fi Record Player
- The Sleep-Walking Murderer – Podcast #144
- Kids Keep Santa From Getting a Ticket
- Santa Stuck in Chimney
- Gift of 4-Tons of Fertilizer
- A Grateful Mother – Podcast #143
- The Most Beautiful Ape in the World Contest
- World Posture Queen Pageant
- Rita Hayworth Beautiful Legs Contest
- The Runaway Miss America – Podcast #142
- Submarine Rodeo
- The Ghost Plane
- Legal to Fly Airplanes on Sunday
- The Flying Housewife – Podcast #140
- Man Steals Railway
- Airplane Golf Match
- Horseless Age Is Not Far Away
- Mother Tells Baby That Armed Robber is a TV Repairman
- Early Long-Distance Learning Fails
- Dead Man Helps Revive Wife
- The Fight for Hildy McCoy – Podcast #139
- Watch-Sized Radios Possible
- ENIAC is First Computer
- Robert Oppenheimer Falls Asleep on His Date
- Titanic’s Orphans – Podcast #138
- Burglars Stole the Paper, Too
- She Thought Robber Was Fooled
- Snitch Gets the Last Laugh
- The Zambian Space Program – Podcast #137
- Fails to Win Back Wife After Two Suicide Attempts
- Kissing Barred on Bavarian Trains
- Married atop a Ferris Wheel
- The Child Bride – Podcast #135
- Two Homes Built on Wrong Lots
- A Lady’s Age Is Her Own Business
- Mummies Found in Attic
- Beet Salad Could Be an Influenza Cure
- Emperor of the Sahara – Podcast #134
- Pimientos Could Be an Influenza Cure
- Iodine and Creosote Influenza Cure
- Send-A-Dame Chain Letter
- Wife’s First Husband Found Alive
- Woke Up Beside a Dead Man
- A Nose for Fishing – Podcast #133
- One-Week with the Beatles?
- She Won’t Get Fooled Again
- Stole 55 Right-Footed Shoes
- In the Blink of an Eye – Podcast #132
- Life-Size Statue Found on Subway Platform
- Elephant Falls from Elevated Trolley
- Suicide Prevented by Cork Leg
- An Inside Job – Podcast #131
- 17-Year Christmas Card Mystery
- Parachute Drops Christmas Gifts
- Sacramental Wine for Jewish Families to Be Doubled
- A Christmas Eve Kidnapping – Podcast #130
- Was the Heaviest Man Buried in a Piano Shipping Box?
- Wrote Will on the Back of a Wall Calendar
- Will Written on Egg Shell
- Tells Amazing Tale of Mars
- Soul Searching – Podcast #129
- Not Dead Yet…
- Jailed for Writing Fiction
- Edwin Land’s Invention
- The Prick of Death – Podcast #128
- 50,000 Books Given Away
- In the Water Too Long…
- Milk Bottle Shortage
- The Case of the Doctor-Doctor Kidnapping – Podcast #127
- Spike Heels Banned in Mobile, Alabama
- Idea Wasn’t a Bust
- Suits Made from Paper
- The Transcontinental Taxi Ride – Podcast #126
- Girls Stuck in Phone Booth
- Woman Swallows a Live Mouse
- Popping Popcorn Wrecks Building
- The Snoring War – Podcast #125
- Drivers Use Homeowner’s Yard as Roadway
- Plane Lands on Car
- First Tire to Cross the Pacific?
- Flying Blind – Podcast #124
- The First Jewish Couple Married on National TV – Podcast #121
- The Scooter Romeo
- The Wrong Man
- An Incredible Life of Learning
- The Missing Groom
- The Coal Mountain Casanova – Podcast #120
- Dog Has His Own Charge Account
- Salem Trade School Interview
- Toothless Dog Charged in Biting
- Dog Choked by Fishing Line
- A Punishment That Went Horribly Wrong – Linda Marie Ault – Podcast #119
- Rock Group Heart Should Have a Heart Attack
- The Carpenters are the Disney Version of Music
- Carole King Can Barely Sing
- No Locks at Denny’s
- Empty Christmas Envelopes
- Santa Breaks Girl’s Heart
- Christmas Time in Santa Heim – Podcast #118
- The Adventure of a Lifetime – Podcast #117
- Hitchhiking Father and Son Reunited
- Twins Hitchhiking Around the World
- Uses Handcuffs to Hitch Rides
- The Walking Murphys – Podcast #116
- That’s My Parking Spot!
- That’s a Lot of Ants…
- 6-Year-Old Goes on a Buying Spree
- The Monster Crash at Crush – Podcast #115
- The Sign Said Free TV
- Kept Alive by Pumping Arms
- Pennies Hoarded for Gold
- Baby Moses – Podcast #114
- Officer, I am Being Followed…
- Self-Service Gasoline
- Both Children Born in a Yellow Cab
- Mile-A-Minute Murphy – Podcast #113
- Rubber Hose Cures Hiccups
- Saved by a Giant Turtle
- More Intelligent People Have Gout
- Cow Jumps Over the Moon
- Moons of Mars Made by Martians
- Woman Befriends Rats
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Podcast #112
- Dick the Dog – Podcast #111
- Loses Job for Taking Out a Personal Ad
- Needed a Husband to Pay Off Debt
- Wife Must Be Of Sound Wind and Limb
- Wife for Sale – Podcast #110
- Don’t Drink Sunlight Dish Detergent
- Glue Sniffing Fad
- Exercise Fad is Dangerous
- The Case of the Phantom Vegetable Oil – Podcast #109
- Safety Buttons Proven Unsafe
- Only Santa Fits Down Chimneys
- Got Just What He Asked For
- The Man Who Gave Away His Birthday – Podcast #108
- World’s First Commercial Airline
- Pretended to be an Astronaut
- Man Sucked into Jet Engine
- Held on for Dear Life
- The First Transatlantic Airplane Race – Podcast #107
- Intelligence Related to Breast Size
- Won Nose Job on TV
- Children Will Have Bugs Bunny Teeth
- Elixir of Death – Podcast #106
- Placed Tooth in His Ear
- Tried to Hide Her Report Card
- Teacher Punishes Students with an Electric Chair
- Le Mars Trilogy: Part 3 – Maybelle Trow Knox – Podcast #105
- Her First Husband Was Still Alive
- Sees Dead Husband on Movie Screen
- Thought His First Wife Was Dead
- Le Mars Trilogy: Part 2 – Farmers in Revolt – Podcast #104
- Waiter Drugs Non-Tipper
- Permitted to Wear Van Dyke Beard
- Pushes Cart 13 Miles Off Course
- Le Mars Trilogy: Part 1 – T.M. Zink’s Library – Podcast #103
- Twilight Zone Chooses to Keep Rod Serling
- Kids Trapped in a Toolbox
- Wife Serves Husband Dog Food
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker – Podcast #102
- Superboy Flies Out the Window
- Ad – 1973: Habitrail
- Pilot Crashes into Living Room of Home
- Kids Bounce Out of the Window
- Where There’s a Wilby, There’s a Way – Podcast #101
- Washed His Intestines in the Kitchen Sink
- Doctor Removes His Own Appendix
- Ultimate Cure for a Sore Throat???
- A Miracle Birth in Mexico – Podcast #100
- Eleuterio the Parrot
- Vote Cacareco
- Mule Elected to Office
- Millionaire for a Day – Podcast #99
- Princess Margaret Caught Smoking a Cigarette
- Found Out Who Her Husband Really Was…
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