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Let’s Explore Some Vintage Newspapers
Who likes to drink tea like we do? Well grab a cup and join us! The Cure Listing, The Calgary Herald (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), August 28, 1918 Sounds like a great day to go to the movies. The Cure stars Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (1889-1977) as an alcoholic at a health spa. Hilarity ensues, no doubt.…
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Don’t Talk Bad About My Wife: The Awful Tale of Harry Radcliffe and Andrew Riley
“I shot Andrew Reilly because he insulted my wife” is what Harry Radcliffe told a San Francisco Call newspaper reporter. Harry continued, “My wife was waiting for me at the corner of Ninth and Folsom at 1 o’clock this morning. Reilly approached and insulted her grossly. I followed him and killed him.” Well, that doesn’t…
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Death Over a Garden Hose…Really…
Today we are going to explore (as much as historical newspapers and such will tell us) the extreme ending to a neighborly feud April 27, 1934. Just South of State Route 1, a group of cottages stood at 1732 and 1740 Molino Avenue in the Whittier neighborhood of Long Beach, California. One cottage was occupied…
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