Show HISTORIC by elmo scott watson HOAXES HO alves 0 western newspaper union anti brassiere campaign WHEN HEN the late halbert L hoard editor ot of the jefferson county union approached some of his friends in fort atkinson wis with a request that they sign a petition which he had prepared they hesitate they knew his paper advocated some very good things and they were willing to help bert along what they had signed was this the undersigned undersigner under signed note with alarm the increase in divorces since the nineteenth amendment the woman suffrage law W we e note many more women wearing breeches than before we can stand that but this new fad slab sided dresses oat flat in front showing women in the fashion pictures as flat cheated as man we regard with jealous eyes as an infringe infringement rne wt we ask ash th that at th the e congress of the united states do its utmost to break down these b brassieres bras r a s s sieres bew a as s a an n e evil yi i th that a t men menaces aces the f future u t u r e well b being ei n g 0 of f s society oc ie t y they very soon realized that they had been a little hasty their womenfolk told them they ought to be ashamed and that they should mind their own business but a welfare league in a city nearby took the matter seriously and passed a resolution supporting the campaign then an official of the state board of health issued a statement saying that brassieres bras sieres caused rickets in babies whereupon mr hoard wrote an editorial in which he be said there are cow milk fed babies right in this city that are gasping for breath the doctor at his wits end to nourish them properly they could live on monkeys milk because monkeys are related but there are no monkeys around except with the deadly brassieres bras sieres and few of those are giving milk before the uproar over this matter died down halbert hoard was known from coast to coast as the valiant maliak crusader against the deadly brassiere all ail because of a hoax which some of his obliging friends helped perpetrate lord Kitch eners body TM N AUGUST 1926 all of england was thrilled by an announcement which indicated that one of the mysteries of the world war had at last been solved this was the mystery surrounding the death of lord kitchener first commander of the british forces in in france A signed article by frank power which appeared in the london referee declared that his body had been discovered in a graveyard in norway kitchener had been lost at sea in may 1916 when the ship taking him to russia on a secret mission had disappeared and there had been all sorts of rumors about the case an especially ugly one was that the government which had wanted to get rid of kitchener but dare remove him from office because of his great popularity with the masses had been sent on what it knew would be a fatal trip power announced that he was bringing the body back to london when he arrived there with a coffin it was immediately seized by the police when it was opened in the presence of high government officials it was discovered that the coffin was not only empty but that it had never held a body the whole affair was a publicity stunt for a new moving picture on the life of kitchener in which power whose real name was arthur vectis freeman and others were interested instead of profiting by it as they had hoped a government investigation which was immediately launched and popular indignation over the hoax did them considerable sid erable damage and discouraged further publicity stunts of that kind 0 rare old newspapers I 1 IF F WHILE going through an old trunk in the attic you find a copy of the ulster county gazette published in kingston N Y in 1800 and containing an account of the death of george washington don dont I 1 t get excited and hurry away to tell the local newspaper publisher about your discovery the chances are about out of that its a facsimile C opy copy of the gazette of that date and thousands of them have been reprinted and distributed as souvenirs it was first done back in 1828 1826 in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of independence but most of them were produced tor for the philadelphia centennial in 1876 naturally in the course of time the paper becomes aged and yellow and brittle so in that respect its old but its neither rare nor valuable unless you can find someone who is buying fake antiques even then he wont give you much for it the only known genuine copy of this famous paper is now in the library of congress all of the thousands of others which bob up from time to time are reprints another original may be found some time but its very very doubt doubtful full |