Sisters ate newspaper to survive
February 1980: The Schreiner sisters, Naomi (76) and Ruth (74), were found dead in their Columbus, Ohio home, apparently starved to death. In the house were found "little rolls of newspaper on plates as if the women had been eating them."
Neighbors had sensed something was going wrong with the sisters for a while, and some had offered to help but had been told by the sisters to mind their own business.
Neighbors had sensed something was going wrong with the sisters for a while, and some had offered to help but had been told by the sisters to mind their own business.
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And, the news today is even harder to swallow but, still, they keep shoveling it at us.
For you citified folk that don't know what things are, usually, shoveled; there are only 2 things that get shoveled, they're both 4 letter words that start with the letter "S" and the other one isn't "Snow".
For you citified folk that don't know what things are, usually, shoveled; there are only 2 things that get shoveled, they're both 4 letter words that start with the letter "S" and the other one isn't "Snow".
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/01/16 at 10:09 AM
Weird, but sad. :(
Posted by Kyle Morgan on 04/01/16 at 12:15 PM
@Expat47 -- "For you citified folk that don't know what things are, usually, shoveled; there are only 2 things that get shoveled, they're both 4 letter words that start with the letter "S" and the other one isn't "Snow"."
Sand?
Sand?
Posted by Phideaux on 04/01/16 at 12:24 PM
@Phideaux: Only if the river is rising.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/01/16 at 12:27 PM
Salt- A variation of the old saying "Working in the coal mine".
Posted by BMN on 04/01/16 at 01:30 PM
They quit shoveling salt in the mines under Quincy many a moon ago but the farmers around there have an abundance of "the real thing".
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/01/16 at 01:38 PM
The sisters were described as "eccentric", which is really just a nice word for bat (shovel this) crazy.
Posted by KDP on 04/01/16 at 02:57 PM
They should have just eaten the dates.
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 04/01/16 at 03:40 PM
If you happen to be the low man on a landscaping crew, you will spend much of your work day shovelling sand, silt and soil along with S...!
Posted by BMN on 04/01/16 at 08:07 PM
I'm reminded of an underground comic I read in San Francisco back in the early 70's, where a character ended up with a job shoveling sh-t on Uranus. It might have been in the Wonder Wart-Hog story, "Wonder Wart-Hog and the Invasion of the Pigs From Uranus!", by the extremely talented Gilbert Shelton.
Posted by Fritz G on 04/02/16 at 08:51 AM
I am pretty sure the Area Department on Aging existed then too. A shame no one reported the sisters for a welfare check.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 04/02/16 at 11:18 PM
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Category: Death | 1980s