News From the Past

125 years ago: 1884

A horse hitched to a delivery wagon in the alley near Main and Gayoso ran away yesterday. In his mad race he leaped over a lumber pile thereby ending all connection between himself and the vehicle he was pulling. He ran for several more blocks and then apparently discovered that he had left the wagon behind, he turned, walked back to it, waited to be hitched again and then calmly went off gentle as a kitten.

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News From the Past - A Consummate Ass

Please forgive the 'language'. I didn't write this stuff.

(But I enjoy it).

125 years ago: 1884

A consummate ass yesterday played on a steamboat whistle for his own delectation but to the great annoyance of everyone else in town. The incessant playing of the same tune over and over made wrecks out of the nervous and nervous wrecks out of the phlegmatic. A session on the "rock pile" would perhaps teach him to play another tune and one with not such a high pitch.

And more 'recently':

75 years ago: 1934

Thousands of women have won divorces in Circuit Court here in recent years, but only 61 of them are receiving alimony through the court, a check revealed yesterday. Of these only one woman is drawing as much as $80 a month, the others range downward to $2 and $3 a week with less than $30 as the average.

(Currently:

Blogger is just a freaky system most of the time; I enter and see paragraghs and breaks and centering and normal formatting, but then blogger goes and does bizarre things when I hit publish. I'm sorry for squishy words and strange size font. I just don't know.)

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News from the Past: It's Cold Outside!

125 years ago:  

1884

Last night, a youngster stuck his tongue on an iron post at Third and Monroe and it was so cold that it immediately stuck to the metal.  His mother, attracted by his moans and groans, was preparing to pour a kettle of hot water over his head to thaw his tongue when a passerby stopped her and freed the tongue by blowing his warm breath on it until the boy and the post were unstuck.

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So You Can, But Why Would You?

125 years ago: 1884

A man living  across the line in Mississippi was arrested recently for giving his wife a severe beating. But the magistrate had to free him because under Mississippi law a wife is liable to indictment if she strikes her husband. But the man is not liable for striking a woman if he uses a switch no larger than his little finger to chastise her.

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