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Clip of the Week: December 11, 2024
On December 11, 2024 by ElyseIs this bad customer service or the customer from hell? You decide: A traveller in the Lake district who found himself stranded owing to a mishap at 5.45 one morning went to an hotel and rang the bell. No one opened the door, and, though he rang again and again, he was unable to gain
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Clip of the Week: November 13, 2024
On November 13, 2024 by ElyseThis is what happens when you hire Florida Man as your attorney: Attorney William F. Koegler had been acting as special prosecutor in the Miami (Florida) Court of Crimes all the week. Then he changed his role and defended a youth charged with stealing a watch. He ended his speech to the jury with the
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Clip of the Week: September 18, 2024
On September 18, 2024 by ElyseWe all have that one friend who takes the joke too far: A singular and amusing case came up at Dublin Police-court on Saturday, a clerk, named Thomas Summer, being charged with handcuffing Richard M’Cormack. The evidence showed that the prisoner and a friend visited the Tivoli Music-hall on the previous evening, and there witnessed
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Clip of the Week: August 21, 2024
On August 21, 2024 by ElyseIf the head-scratching stories featured on this blog are any judge, American newspapers from centuries past took full advantage of their right to free expression—especially their freedom to be snarky and petty. But does the First Amendment protect the right to typos? In a Missouri newspaper office, recently, the boy who “makes up” the forms
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Clip of the Week: July 10, 2024
On July 10, 2024 by ElyseHow to get sued for medical malpractice in three easy steps: A writer in “The Hospital,” giving advice to young doctors says:—“If you think a shock will do the patient good (many diseases, including deafness, blindness, madness, and sadness or hypochondriasis yield to shock), choose a raw, cold morning and drive your car, bare-handed, to
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Clip of the Week: June 26, 2024
On June 26, 2024 by ElyseDoes anyone know a good barber? This guy could use a recommendation: Mr. Frederick Wilkins, landlord of the Tow Tree, a village inn at Burghill, in the lovely lands of pastoral Hereford, renowned as a man of a strange oath, and bearded like the pard, may now go to the barber again. Sixteen years ago
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Clip of the Week: June 12, 2024
On June 12, 2024 by ElyseThis is what happens when Americans go abroad: Mr. W. W. Umberhauer, a Philadelphia banker, had to change a suit of clothes yesterday on account of the peculiar effect the pattern had on horses in the Strand [in London] and other thoroughfares. Mr. Umberhauer is a guest at the Hotel Cecil, and the suit is
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Clip of the Week: May 15, 2024
On May 15, 2024 by ElyseProof that politicians have been saying “Do as I say, not as I do” for at least 100 years: A rather amusing and somewhat unusual incident occurred during Mr [future New Zealand Prime Minister William] Massey’s recent visit to the West Coast. . . The leading citizens of Greymouth decided to banquet him, and the
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Clip of the Week: May 1, 2024
On May 1, 2024 by ElyseWhat do we want? Life, liberty and the pursuit of hairstyles! When do we want them? Now! The telephone girls of Stockholm (Sweden) are fighting for the liberty of hairdress. They recently all adopted the fashion set by the French dancer “Cleo de Merode,” of combing the hair over the ears. The telephone subscribers, however,