“New York.--John Valtz and Martin Hart each fined $5 for sticking out tongues at policemen.” 

~The day book. (Chicago, Ill.), 07 Aug. 1915. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. 

1916: Four Inmates Escaped

“Four inmates of Dunning insane asylum escaped. One was woman said she was going to marry another of the four.” ~The day book. (Chicago, Ill.), 07 Aug. 1916. Chronicling America. Lib. of Congress. 

1905: One of the Things Which Happen Occasionally to the Motorists

~The Spokane press. (Spokane, Wash.), 07 Aug. 1905. Chronicling America. Lib. of Congress. 

1922: Scold's Bridle

~From The Breckenridge Daily American (Breckenridge, Tex.), August 7, 1922 

1885: Mr. Gamble's Coffin Bed

"Forty years ago Mr. David Gamble, a wealthy farmer near here, made a coffin in which he slept every night without failure. His novel bed was chosen, he said, as a constant reminder that death is always near. His desire to impress this fact upon himself was owing to teh sudden death of his wife, at the age of 30 years, by heart disease. Just before he made the coffin they hda been to a ball, and after returning home retired to bed.  Fifteen minutes later Mr. Gamble found that his wife had died in his arms. The shock was believed by many to have unsettled his reason. He always kept his coffin there-after in the corner of his dining room. He would get into it every night and pull the lid up until only his face was exposed to view. One day he had a traveling photographer take a view of him as he lay in his coffin. This picture he had framed and hung over the dining room mantle piece. Last night he retired to his coffin at the usual hour, but when the servant called him this morning it was found that he was dead. The body was not disturbed, and will be buried as it was found. Mr. Gamble was a charitable man and much liked."

~From The Standard (Clarksville, Tex.), August 7, 1885 

1913: 100-year-old Coca Cola Ad

~From The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), August 7, 1913 

1847: Mlle Lola Montes, Mistress of a King

"This woman (a Spanish dancer) is the one that has bewitched the King of Bavaria, who is sixty years old and a considerable poet. In a recent sonnet, the King compares himself to a high mountain, covered with snow, and the lady to the sun that has melted the frost from its top. She was  born at Seville, and after perfecting herself as a dancer, started forth in quest of adventures. At Berlin she horse-whipped a gendarme who endeavored to keep her from riding before the king at a review at Warsaw. She dared the Mayor to a duel from the stage. At Paris she was the cause of an affair of honor, in which a talented educator, Dujarrier, was shot; after the running the flower of the aristocracy of these three cities, she left for Munich. There she cut up such capers that, on the 16th of Feb the people began to gather around her hotel, threatening to burn her for having bewitched the king. So great was the excitement, that the commandant of a garrison sent a regiment of dragoons to escort her from the city to one of the king's country seats, where he followed her the next morning. It would not be strange if his majesty's love should lose him a crown."

~From The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), August 7, 1847 

1902: On Business Women

"The question of woman and matrimony with an admixture of business seems to be individual and a matter of personal taste upon the part of the man in the case. If he wants a clinging vine, some one who will put him on a pedestal and be grateful that fate has given her a god, let him keep away from the business woman. But if he wants a chum who will take him for what he is - and in spite of it - who will be a wife and a pal, who will be a solid comfort to him, let him choose a woman who has been out into the business world and gained a broader view of the world and of men, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 

"Such a one will take a man for just what he is worth - no foolish ideals about his greatness; just a plain man - and they will be happy because neither expects too much. Business never unfitted any woman for matrimony who was originally fitted for it. She can go through a business career without any loss of any kind. It rests entirely with her, and she can gain much which will be of incalculable advantage in making her life happy and that of a man who gets her. Business broadens her and gives her more common sense."

~From The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), August 7, 1902

1897: No Corsets for Her

No Corsets For Her

"The theatrical world of New York has been agitated during the past week by the action of pretty Jennie Whitbeck, who threw up a decidedly profitable engagement because the costume required by the part necessitated the wearing of corsets. Miss Whitbeck announced that she had never worn corsets and never will. The part Miss Whitbeck had signed for was that of Little Bo-Peep in a new play which starts out next season, and when the plate design for the costume - French shepherdess style with tiny waist, puffs over the hips, high heels and all - was sent her Miss Whitbeck nearly had hysterics. 'I won't!' she said. 'You will!' said her manager, he will sue her if she persists in her refusal. Miss Whitbeck airly says that there are other managers. She declares the average manager would be unable to see any beauty in the Venus de Milo, but nevertheless she will never endure the stiff torture of a corset."

~From The Houston Daily Post (Houston, Tex.), Saturday, August 7, 1897