Wives
The Pussy Cat Club
A 1970 report by the British news program Nationwide on a group of housewives who didn't believe in gender equality and thought their proper role was to pamper and serve their husbands.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 15, 2015 -
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Category: Wives, 1970s
Mt. Rainier Practical Joke
A most excellent prank.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 29, 2015 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, 1980s, Pranks
Can-Fed Husbands
Shamokin News-Dispatch - Apr 1927
From Songs of a Housewife, by Marjorie Rawlings. It's an odd book of poetry, recording in verse all the various complaints and problems of 1920's housewives, such as husbands who complained about being given canned food.
Available at Amazon
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Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 16, 2015 -
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Category: Wives, Poetry, 1920s
Bobbitt v2.0h NO!
Taking her lead from the famed Mrs. Bobbit, Mrs. Feng Lung of China not only counted coup once but snuck into the hospital to redo the act a second time.The UPI has all the details but, alas, has omitted the instruction manual. Maybe Fiskars has something you ladies may find helpful.
Posted By: Expat47 - Thu Jan 15, 2015 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, Genitals
His wife was his aunt
I can't quite figure out what dentist Jeffrey Gordon was up to. Was the plan to annul his marriage in order to remarry his wife to make their marriage fully legal? That's what I'm assuming. The law legalizing marrying your aunt-by-marriage must not have been retroactive. But evidently his wife didn't fully trust him. So there must have been more to the story.Source: The Paris Texas News - Sep 29, 1960.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 18, 2014 -
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Category: Family, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Marital Bliss
Source: The Coshocton Tribune - Mar 20, 1937
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 05, 2014 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, Marriage, 1930s
The Relaxed Wife
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 29, 2014 -
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Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Husbands, Wives, 1950s
John and Mary Newlywed
In 1925 and 1926, Popular Science featured the antics of "John and Mary Newlywed," a young married couple so stupid they did everything wrong around the house. In the instance above from March 1926, John and Mary--despite having perfected anti-gravity as attested to by the unsupported car--are about to blow themselves up and smother themselves with gas fumes.
I regret the Newlyweds did not have a longer run. They would have been the Gallant-less Goofuses of the hobbyist set.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 11, 2014 -
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Category: Husbands, Wives, 1920s, Goofs and Screw-ups
Tightrope Wedding
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 08, 2014 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Husbands, Wives, 1950s, Europe
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