1935: How to Discipline Your Child in the Good Old Days
Good and bad disciplining of a child, the 1935 version.
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Tags: 1935, children, discipline, history, lifestyle, news, university of minnesota
1960: What Do You Think of the Groundhog Superstition?
Local people offered their take on the Groundhog Day legend in 1960.
Next post at noon.
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Tags: 1960, groundhog, groundhog day, holidays, local news, news, photos, weather
1935: Give Child a Saw and a Hammer, and Fry Everything
In 1935, giving children (age unspecified) a hammer, saw, nails, and glue was a good idea, and so was frying all the meat before canning it.
I remember when my young brother found my great-grandfather's old tools, and I also remember finding holes drilled in everything in the house: the table, my books, my mother's best cake pan, and anything that wasn't nailed down, which was most things.
Fortunately, there were no nails in the box. And I shudder to think what would have happened if there had been glue.
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Tags: 1935, canning, children, education, entertainment, food, frying, times change, tools
1960: Groundhog Predicts Early Spring
In 1960, the Groundhog predicted an early spring.
We'll see how accurate the little furball was.
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Tags: 1960, groundhog, groundhog day, holidays, news, weather
1945: Germany Will Not Formally Surrender
This 1945 contention that Germany would not formally surrender did not turn out to be correct. In fact there were many surrenders.
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Tags: 1945, germany, news, peace, surrender, war, world war ii
1935: Rhumba, There's Always Tomorrow, Square Shooter
Shows at the Grand in 1935 included "Rhumba," "There's Always Tomorrow," "Square Shooter" and "Bolero.
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Tags: 1935, bolero, entertainment, grand, lifestyle, movies, rhumba, square shooter, theaters, theres always tomorrow
1935: Nobles County Not Too Safe
In 1934 Nobles County was pretty unsafe, traffic accident-wise -- there were 10 deaths, according to this 1935 report in the Nobles County Times.
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Tags: 1934, 1935, accidents, news, nobles county, nobles county times, safety
1935: Advertisers and Habeas Corpus Hearings
Here are snippets from the 1935 Nobles County Times, from a list of its advertisers (including my favorite, Benson and Sorensen's Dairy), the notation of some hard news about a habeas corpus hearing or two, to the bit about the Grand's purchase of a new silver-coated screen.
Yes, silver-coated.
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Tags: 1935, advertising, business, crime, entertainment, hollywood, movies, news, nobles county times, silver screen
1935: Man Killed in Odd Accident; Debate Team Prepares for Competition
In 1935, the news of a man who died in a freak accident was put below the news that the debate team was preparing for a meet. Strange priority.
Claude P. Wood, 52, son of Frank Wood, at one time sexton of the local cemetery, died Tuesday following an accident Saturday, in which an automobile fan flew off the shaft and struck him, fracturing his skull.
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Tags: news, 1935, accidents, crime, debate, education, nobles county times, obituaries, schools
1960: Half-Naked Girl Advertises Mattresses
It amazes me how many scantily-or-unclad women show up in advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s. The modern conception of this time period is that they were prudish.
In this case, it's a fairly tame advertisement featuring a woman's bare back, advertising for mattresses at Rickbeils.
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Tags: advertising, business, mattresses, nudity, posturepedic, rickbeils
1945: A Beauty Treatment That You Eat!
You too will be beautiful if you eat cabbage and potatoes, implies this 1945 advertisement.
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Tags: 1945, advertising, business, cabbage, food, potatoes, produce, vegetables
1935: Carjacker Gives Victim Money for Sandwich, Promises to Change the Oil
A carjacker stole a man's car, gave him some money for coffee, promised to change the oil and dropped him off miles from home near Adrian in 1935. True story.
Auto thieves, with a kidnapping complex and a Jesse James flourish, visited Worthington late last night, kidnapped Stanley L. LeBon of the LeBon-Scott feed concern, and made off with his car, after releasing him on a side road about two miles west of Adrian, bestowing lunch money upon him and promising to take good care of the machine.
The case is almost an exact parallel to a job staged at Sioux Falls Tuesday night, and is believed to have been pulled by the same persons, who are suspected of being among those staging the jail break at Granite, Oklahoma.
LeBon, reaching home about 10 o’clock after a conference down town, was locking up his car in front of his house on Burlington street, when a gun was thrust against his side, and he was ordered to re-enter the machine, a Ford V-8 coach, purchased about a month ago. He was seated between the two robbers, and the car driven out of town on U.S. 16.
West of Adrian the bandits wheeled into a side road, and went thru the clothing of the Worthington man for money and weapons. It fortunately happened that he had only a few cents in change in his pockets. He was put out of the machine, but before parting company with his kidnappers, one of them is reported to have thrust upon him a small handful of change, totaling a little over half a dollar, saying that he was quite a way from home, and would probably need a cup of coffee.
The thieves also asked LeBon concerning the oil. He told them that he was just about to have an oil change, and advised them to add a quart, which they promised to do. They then drove off, leaving the local man afoot and miles from the nearest town, on a chilly night. LeBon walked back to Adrian, where he called his brother-in-law, D.J. Scott, who drove over to Adrian after him, accompanied by Arch Scott.
Unable, of course, to give a clear description of the two men, about the only identifica-tion the victim of the kidnapping could give was that one was tall and the other short. This fact, and the novel method employed by the thieves, lays the parallel with the Sioux Falls case of the night before, in which a garage attendant on West Twelfth street was held up by two men, one of whom he described as being about six feet three and the other a little over five feet tall. This pair forced the garage man to accompany him to a point two miles west of the city, also on U.S. 16, where they released him.
The Sioux Falls car was a Hudson sedan, and Sheriff Rowe told the Sioux Falls sher-iff today that his office will keep an eye out for such a car somewhere in the neighborhood, though of course it is probable that the thieves reached Worthington by some other way.
A possibility that the men may be two of the 31 who broke out of the Oklahoma reformatory at Granite on Sunday gains color from the fact that one of the prison-breakers is known to have exchanged a suit of reformatory clothing for a new outfit at Mankato Tuesday of this week, indicating that a part of the gang has invaded the Northwest and may be operating in this part of the country.
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Tags: 1935, adrian, automobiles, carjacking, cars, crime, iowa, jesse james, news, oddness, robbery, sioux falls, south dakota, theft, vehicles, worthington
1960: Rural Electrification Judges Willie Wirehand Awesome
Another Nobles Cooperative Electric ad starring the amazing Willie Wirehand, from 1960, touting the benefits of rural electrification.
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Tags: 1960, advertising, business, cooperatives, electricity, nobles cooperative electric, rural electrification, willie wirehand
1945: Perky Girl in War Bond Green
World War II even affected fashion, as you can see from this model, labelled "perky" and wearing a "war bond green" dress in 1945.
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Tags: 1945, fashion, perky, photos, style, war, world war ii
1935: Gang Ringleader Under Arrest
Ringleader of gang believed under arrest in 1935!
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Tags: 1935, crime, gangs, holdup, iowa, minnesota, news, robbery, round lake, sioux city
1960: Wedding Party Attacked by Giant Forks
In the Great Fork Attack of 1960, a bride and groom were surrounded, outgunned, menaced on every side by the sharp and deadly tines, and still, the silverware kept raining down from the heavens, a relentless shower of cruel, pronged death.
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Tags: 1960, advertising, brides, business, cutlery, forks, grooms, h g larson, jewelers, silver, silverware, weddings
1945: Unfortunate Meat Choices
I believe this 1945 meal was a liver loaf, two words which in my opinion should never, ever be put in the same phrase.
It's difficult at the best of times to make food look good in black and white, and when you're dealing with liver, it's pretty much a losing battle from the start.
The fact that they surrounded the thing with something resembling the chilled monkey brains from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom probably didn't help.
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Tags: 1945, dinners, food, liver, liver loaf, photos, unfortunate food, yuck
