BONUS - OLD TIMEY ARTICLES
Summary
Hosts review blunt, vintage newspaper clippings detailing gruesome early 20th-century tragedies. Stories include a 1958 boy throwing a girl off a roof, a 1908 heel amputation, and various fatal accidents involving trains, cars, and machinery. They also discuss bizarre headlines like a man dying while fetching water for a baby and a headless child’s body found in a sack. The episode highlights the stark, unfiltered nature of historical reporting on death and disaster.
Topics discussed
1958: Teenager throws girl off roof and confesses
1908: Heel torn off by boat engine and tragic drownings
1908: Carpenter dies of tetanus lockjaw
1908: Train accidents, heart failure, and electrocutions
1939: Schoolgirl mangled by streetcar
1925: Social notices, ads, and miner brawl
1929: Skull crushed murder and family house fire
1929: Car accidents, plaster injury, and butter heist
1938: Hunting accident and elevator death
1931: Mutilated body found in sack by goat herder
1930: Train crashes into cars killing families
1930: Miners sealed in burning mine
1930s: Boy strangles girl and hides body
1920s: Hindu revenge killings in California
1920s: Bigamist hanged for murder after failed fake death
1920s: Boy shot in groin while hunting and outro
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