Death
Follies of the Madmen #457
Man, that's a hard-nosed ad! No mincing words. Could it run today?
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 17, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Insurance, Death, 1950s
Corpse Mountain
The text and illustration below are from a 1926 newspaper. So, I imagine the corpse mountain would be significantly higher if it included all the dead of the past 100 years.And, of course, Mt. Everest has now been scaled many times.
Hamilton Evening Journal - July 31, 1926
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 11, 2019 -
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Category: Death
The Hazardous Maxi-coat
It's getting colder outside, here in the Northern Hemisphere--but be careful of how you bundle up!
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 05, 2019 -
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Category: Death, Fashion, 1970s, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
The Sunshine Grave of Mrs. Leila Davidson Hansell
During the year-and-a-half that Leila Davidson Hansell suffered from tuberculosis, she developed a profound fear of being interred for eternity in the darkness of the earth. She beseeched her husband, "Don't let them bury me in the cold ground. Lay me where the sun will shine on me all day long."Her husband obliged and hired undertaker J.M. Stepp to build an aboveground vault for her topped with thick squares of prism glass. When she died in 1915, she was placed inside this unusual grave, located in Hendersonville, North Carolina's Oakland Cemetery. The locals began referring to her as the "sunshine lady."
San Francisco Examiner - July 17, 1927
The undertaker always insisted that Mrs. Hansell lay inside a coffin in the vault. However, many people who peered through the thick glass claimed that they could see her skeleton. As described in a 1927 article in American Weekly magazine:
In the early 1930s, the sightings took on a new twist. The growth of two spruce pines in the cemetery had caused shade to fall over Hansell's tomb in the afternoon. This inspired people to think that they could see her skeleton turned on its side, as if she had been disturbed by the shadows falling over her.
By 1937 the cemetery had had enough of the crowds of people the sunshine grave was drawing. So they covered the top with concrete. According to Hendersonville historian Doug Gelbert, the official reason given was that "Many people expectorated on the glass and for sanitary reasons the top will be covered."
Hansell's grave, with its concrete top, remains in Oakland Cemetery to this day.
Incidentally, Mrs. Hansell's maiden name was Davidson, and that was the same Davidson family after whom Davidson college in North Carolina was named. So she came from money.
The sunshine grave as it looks today. (source: Instagram)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 05, 2019 -
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Category: Death
The Frank Landslide
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 20, 2019 -
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Category: Death, Destruction, Disasters, Nature, 1900s, North America
Beer in a Dead Squirrel
I do not see this limited-edition beer for sale any longer on the BrewDog home page. But perhaps you should subscribe to their newsletter for any such future offerings.Article here from 2016.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 17, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Death, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Alcohol
Marion Zioncheck, Bipolar Congressman
Congressman Marion Zioncheck , America ' s crazy MP , is in gaol at Washington after having been accused of standing on his landlady and hurling bottles and a typewriter through the windows of his wrecked Washington apartment uttering wild cries all the time . The incident occurred at the end of a whirlwind honeymoon tour . Mr . Zioncheck has just returned to America with his bride from the turbulent South American island of Porto Rico , which they were requested to leave after figuring in a series of " incidents." On one occasion the Congressman pelted passers-by with coconuts from his balcony . Then the couple arrived back in Washington they were soon involved in the dispute with the landlady , Mrs . Benjamin Young , who told the ambulance men that "Zioncheck ruined my home , called me vile names and stood on me " . It is now stated that Zioncheck intends to run for the US Vice - presidency .
Read the whole sad story--ending in suicide--here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 08, 2019 -
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Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Death, Government, Officials, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
Max Und Moritz
Cartoon violence? God forbid!The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 01, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Antisocial Activities, Death, Destruction, Domestic, Cartoons, Stop-motion Animation, 1940s, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Follies of the Madmen #445
Yes, it's perfectly safe to drive your one-ton car on the same surface as the 150-lb iceboat.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 22, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Sports, 1960s, Cars
The Show Won’t Go On
I haven’t read the book yet, but the topic sounds like it would be of interest to WUvies. It's described as the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of performers who died onstage:
Amazon link.
The website for the book includes some examples of recent deaths while performing.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 16, 2019 -
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Category: Death, Books
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