I would be the wife who came back to haunt my good for nothing husband when he remarried. I'd stand on the roof of his house making sheep noises and laugh at the two of them getting freaked out because there's no way a sheep could get onto the roof of their house
That road blindness one actually aged pretty well considering that nowadays a lot of cars drive around with bright LED headlights you can see from several miles away.
"A most engaging smile" is a very polite way of saying "I don't want to look away from you because I'm afraid if I do you'll take it as an opening to lunge at me and rip out my throat"
I grew up in Merrick, NY, and cannot believe that I've gone my whole life without knowing the sordid history of Buttons, the corn-fiending cat. Truly the town's greatest shame. Thanks for the hilarious history lesson!
My small town used to have a newspaper. I read an old paper a few years ago. There was an article about how a local man cut his finger and it got infected.
Especially weird is that he died of heart attack on stage and his namesake son saw it. And some decades later Tyrone Power jr died of heart attack while making a movie. And his son saw it.
This is a great slice of America, between the weird contests, the patent medicines, the ghosts, and some just plain weird nonsense going on. Thanks for sharing.
I haven't tried giving my cats corn, but I have one in particular who is obsessed with pretzels and potato chips. My grandma's dogs, on the other hand, used to regularly swallow corn cobs whole.
Yeah, I don't understand it. They're literally putting other people's lives in danger with these miniature suns they have mounted to the front of their cars
this has already made me fight to keep my laughter in so i dont wake my roommate up multiple times and im only 5 minutes in. thank you so much mr dime o7
Used to work for a newspaper, working on the history articles. Like 20 years ago 40 years ago all the way to 100 years ago. If you want wonderful illustrations like the firecracker one, or you can absolutely find those all over those older newspapers. I'd send you some if I knew where to send it.
I love looking at those old ads and illustrations! Hope the Dime Store guy takes you up and that, he'd make another great video. It's nice of you to suggest that.
My favorite weird news story from my state happened in 1995 when one convicted criminal Adrian Scott Williams petitioned a court to let him change his name to “Romanceo Sir Tasty Maxibillion”. He was denied.
I think I found your channel a good while back when I came across it on Reddit and I've been watching ever since but I just have to say, your channel is criminally under-viewed. Your videos are great.
i’ve thought about the dog being too young and the apples, and i think what was being said was that perhaps he had recently adopted a dog, or gotten one when the apples started growing or something.. the council is upset or whatever that his apples are too ripe, and his reasoning that they are wrong is that his dog is still young and hasn’t grown much, so they can’t have been growing for that long. something along those lines. great video !
Always cheers me up to see the notification of a new video from you. Another reason why I like the video so much is they keep me occupied and my mind off of things.
One more funny Wisconsin story for you. If there’s one thing Wisconsin governors like to do it’s use their veto power. And when Tommy Thompson was governor he loved it so much that a newspaper in Green Bay ran an article whose headline was “Thompson’s pen is a sword”. Unfortunately there was a space missing between pen and is.
Ayyy Pensacola mentioned! The Florida article about the guy and his dead first wife haunting him is from my hometown newspaper 😃 Our newspaper still has pretty much the same name but it’s called Pensacola News Journal now
Just wondering, did you collect most of these snippets naturally over time, or did you seek most of them out fresh for this video? Regardless, really fun and interesting one!
Mix of both! Been collecting for this video for like a year now and realized I had something for about 30/50 states, so I decided to just fill in the gaps.
@@DimeStoreAdventures that makes sense. Probably not reading a lot of Alaskan newspapers while researching around New England. Thanks for the response!
The name of the woman that gave lectures on how to get away with shooting your husband was Carrie Bradshaw. The same name as the character in Sex and the City.
Hey, the potato is a major Agricultual product of Michigan and deserves a Queen. Also note the timestamp December 25, 1936... Christmas day...A slow news day since it is just about the only day of the year where one does not even need to get out of pajamas if they don't want to. Dig a little deeper, I live in Michigan, and I assure you can come up with a story stranger than this.
I find it interesting how basically nothing interesting went on in the original 13 states until the 20th century (except for South Carolina and Massachusetts).
When I was little, I 'helped' mom out by making rice, and ended up just like that poor lady @19:45. We did indeed have rice dishes for days and days! 😅
WANTED: Any three of four boys who are able to beat the crap out of the Vampire Boy, and shave his head, to test whether his hair is the source of his unnatural powers. Reward to be six eggs per morning for six weeks.
10:11 That's nothing, sometimes you could find products endorsed by Civil War generals. (As a Yankee, I have the utmost respect for the fact that Robert E. Lee turned down all endorsement deals he was offered.)
I always thought Monday the 13th was really unlucky. Can we just rename the entire Month of January, as, "Monday?" We're going to party like it's 1899, at the Onion Party!!
This was a beautiful experience lol. All those great stories in one video was almost too much for one person. Keep it up.. you have such odd ball different video ideas and i love it. Unique. (Just btw couldnt wait for the Va story but we ended up with 2 Ky ones.. Cmon Va has some great weird tales😂).
I liked the Harriet Ayers beauty book. I wish I had thought of that technique. Could have made a lot of money. I think the vampire boy could have been possessed. Scary.
I just can't with some of these. This was my expression throughout the whole video: o.O... Literal "wut" syndrome. Antique America were dumber'n a sawdust brick.
Apparently the bad luck was fine for Lenora Davis. She lived to be 87
I would be the wife who came back to haunt my good for nothing husband when he remarried. I'd stand on the roof of his house making sheep noises and laugh at the two of them getting freaked out because there's no way a sheep could get onto the roof of their house
I love how these articles were all like old timey shitposts. The rats one especially 😂
The classic “Garden Hints” comes to mind as more proof of concept.
I love the bad luck lady. I try to do the same thing whenever I can. "Sure hope nothing goes wrong today!" "It'll be fine" "How hard can it be" etc.
Like my Mom... "Could be worse", "Nobody died so you're fine", "What do you expect? Quail on toast?"....
Yeah, the French baby industry never really took off like everyone thought. We don’t get Citroens here either. C’est la vie.
That road blindness one actually aged pretty well considering that nowadays a lot of cars drive around with bright LED headlights you can see from several miles away.
Timestamps by State
Alabama 8:20
Alaska 13:02
Arizona 11:38
Arkansas 17:51
California 20:05
Colorado 12:34
Connecticut 12:01
Delaware 8:34
Florida 13:43
Georgia 6:48
Hawaii 14:05
Idaho 10:08
Illinois 14:18
Indiana 6:25
Iowa 15:59
Kansas 10:26
Kentucky 19:43
Louisiana 11:07
Maine 7:24
Maryland 11:24
Massachusetts 18:36
Michigan 2:27
Minnesota 20:40
Mississippi 19:06
Missouri 16:56
Montana 0:54
Nebraska 14:31
Nevada 15:52
New Hampshire 14:45
New Jersey 17:12
New Mexico 7:57
New York 4:11
North Carolina 8:50
North Dakota 18:09
Ohio 2:55
Oklahoma 0:12
Oregon 5:58
Pennsylvania 2:07
Rhode Island 9:17
South Carolina 9:44
South Dakota 2:41
Tennessee 16:21
Texas 1:30
Utah 16:37
Vermont 5:18
Virginia 5:00
Washington 15:18
West Virginia 15:35
Wisconsin 4:31
Wyoming 19:27
King shit! 👑
Much appreciated
*_Thank you kindly_*
Thanks😊
Bless you for this
"A most engaging smile" is a very polite way of saying "I don't want to look away from you because I'm afraid if I do you'll take it as an opening to lunge at me and rip out my throat"
I grew up in Merrick, NY, and cannot believe that I've gone my whole life without knowing the sordid history of Buttons, the corn-fiending cat. Truly the town's greatest shame. Thanks for the hilarious history lesson!
I don't know why but I find it so comforting to know that people have always been ridiculous and silly
I don't know why but the "no more babies" and overflowing rice pot had me in stitches. Favorite episode yet! 😂
My small town used to have a newspaper. I read an old paper a few years ago. There was an article about how a local man cut his finger and it got infected.
people have had the problem of being blinded by the headlight of other cars on the road since 1939
This was absolutely amazing.
Also, the "guy" in the Florida clip was Tyrone Power, a major, major movie star at that time.
Especially weird is that he died of heart attack on stage and his namesake son saw it. And some decades later Tyrone Power jr died of heart attack while making a movie. And his son saw it.
Who decided to advertise sowing machines by telling people they would turn into a Felonious Bolous?
05:35 I'm dying to know what "Wine of the Woods" is. Google doesn't seem to know...
Maple Syrup? Moonshine?
@@redrooster1908moonshine sounds about right
This is a great slice of America, between the weird contests, the patent medicines, the ghosts, and some just plain weird nonsense going on. Thanks for sharing.
*reading the thumbnail* you had me at potato queen
I am here for Freak Fashion. It's about time!
Saw a lot of it in the 80s ✌
I haven't tried giving my cats corn, but I have one in particular who is obsessed with pretzels and potato chips. My grandma's dogs, on the other hand, used to regularly swallow corn cobs whole.
Oh, it's a hoot! Next time you have corn on the cob, offer it to your cat, or dog! They love it! But you have to be careful. They will eat too much.
“Virginia man loses fight with cat: is nibbled on.”
Honestly, that’s not the weirdest story to come from here.
😂😂😂 Do tell the weirdest plz!
Look up Virginia TV Head Guy
And yet, in 2024 people are still driving around on well-lit roads with their high-beams on...
Yeah, I don't understand it. They're literally putting other people's lives in danger with these miniature suns they have mounted to the front of their cars
Straight to jail. 30 days should do it.
Dude your comedic timing and jump cuts are freaking hilarious!!! I was cracking up the whole time
These news stories would make an excellent little book.
Lovin' your research & storytelling of history. *5 Stars !!!*
the wamp is my spirit animal
😂😂😂lol
I wonder if the wamp and the hodag are friends
Totally😊
this has already made me fight to keep my laughter in so i dont wake my roommate up multiple times and im only 5 minutes in. thank you so much mr dime o7
Loved this video, so funny! Especially the getting babies from France part. Somehow all the babies are gone 😂😂😂
Used to work for a newspaper, working on the history articles. Like 20 years ago 40 years ago all the way to 100 years ago. If you want wonderful illustrations like the firecracker one, or you can absolutely find those all over those older newspapers. I'd send you some if I knew where to send it.
I love looking at those old ads and illustrations! Hope the Dime Store guy takes you up and that, he'd make another great video. It's nice of you to suggest that.
Love these old newspaper stories
Love that every newspaper quoted here is listed in description 👍 That's dedication to detail I admire!!
My favorite weird news story from my state happened in 1995 when one convicted criminal Adrian Scott Williams petitioned a court to let him change his name to “Romanceo Sir Tasty Maxibillion”.
He was denied.
Was waiting for my home state of Minnesota to show up for the whole video. Was not disappointed.
It’s comforting to hear these news stories and realizing we really haven’t changed much.
Onion party?? 😂😂😂 Expanding on that core idea in much naughtier ways has me LMAO😂😂
I think I found your channel a good while back when I came across it on Reddit and I've been watching ever since but I just have to say, your channel is criminally under-viewed. Your videos are great.
Quality content is spelled "Dime Store Adventures". Great video
Sounds about right for Oklahoma.
Sincerely,
A Texan
i’ve thought about the dog being too young and the apples, and i think what was being said was that perhaps he had recently adopted a dog, or gotten one when the apples started growing or something.. the council is upset or whatever that his apples are too ripe, and his reasoning that they are wrong is that his dog is still young and hasn’t grown much, so they can’t have been growing for that long. something along those lines. great video !
Always cheers me up to see the notification of a new video from you. Another reason why I like the video so much is they keep me occupied and my mind off of things.
People say Ohio is weird, but that Pennsylvania article is making me wonder if Ohio's neighbor is ok.
*So excited to hear Colorado’s entry the whole time*
Ah fuck not another cult, why is it always a cult
I laughed all the way through this. Thank you for that. Keep up the good work
One more funny Wisconsin story for you. If there’s one thing Wisconsin governors like to do it’s use their veto power. And when Tommy Thompson was governor he loved it so much that a newspaper in Green Bay ran an article whose headline was “Thompson’s pen is a sword”. Unfortunately there was a space missing between pen and is.
I like the rice story, especially your ending.
5:05 Now that's a Fall of the House of Usher episode I didn't expect to have a real life counterpart.
Can we get The Chapel Hill Weekly to rerun that article about headlights. Tired of being blinded by these goddamn LED headlights.
If you're ever in Oregon, I know where all the cool old cemeteries outside of Portland are! There's some photos of them on my channel.
Ayyy Pensacola mentioned! The Florida article about the guy and his dead first wife haunting him is from my hometown newspaper 😃
Our newspaper still has pretty much the same name but it’s called Pensacola News Journal now
I like to think the cat that killed Mr Wireman was the same Buttons that ate four ears of corn
As an Iowan im very disappointed ours was just “man makes goofy haha face, check it out”
Awesome 👍 thanks for the new video.
Just wondering, did you collect most of these snippets naturally over time, or did you seek most of them out fresh for this video?
Regardless, really fun and interesting one!
Mix of both! Been collecting for this video for like a year now and realized I had something for about 30/50 states, so I decided to just fill in the gaps.
@@DimeStoreAdventures that makes sense. Probably not reading a lot of Alaskan newspapers while researching around New England. Thanks for the response!
You'll find hundreds from my state. Florida Man is alive and...just ad demented as always'
Love seeing new uploads, great video
Man I love this channel. Trying to get more people to watch it. It’s too good to have such low views.
18:53 National Mania nowadays describes USA compared to Britain. How times have changed since USA's Independence.
People are mad but that makes things far more entertaining. Great articles haha
2:58 Lenore is the best story, she had a fun birthday.
2:22 NYC Looking for its rat czar
As a Wisconsin native I am to immediately go search for the Wamp, I’ll bring my fried fish for it to add salt to. What a lad
No babies by 2020? I missed the memo with a few of my Facebook friends 😅
I'd like to get baked with the potato queen. Maybe even twice!
She has appeal!
The name of the woman that gave lectures on how to get away with shooting your husband was Carrie Bradshaw. The same name as the character in Sex and the City.
5:02
Apparently, James L. Wireman was from Campton, Kentucky (Wolfe County) and was between 79 and 80 years old upon his death in 1902.
Lol, that Pennsylvania story sounds like Charlie Kelly from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Hey, the potato is a major Agricultual product of Michigan and deserves a Queen. Also note the timestamp December 25, 1936... Christmas day...A slow news day since it is just about the only day of the year where one does not even need to get out of pajamas if they don't want to. Dig a little deeper, I live in Michigan, and I assure you can come up with a story stranger than this.
That's because they eat Babies in NM...although, the French ones fry better!
I'm from Wisconsin and I see that guy all the time
Yeah I can confirm, our family estate is broke as hell.
I find it interesting how basically nothing interesting went on in the original 13 states until the 20th century (except for South Carolina and Massachusetts).
13:05 James Buchanan heir one just sounds like he's daydreaming out loud. "It would be so awesome if Buchanan left me a billion dollars!"
It's not a bad con, James Buchanan never married.
Those are some nice potatoes though.
the wamp is cute as fuck
Minnesota for the win!
When I was little, I 'helped' mom out by making rice, and ended up just like that poor lady @19:45. We did indeed have rice dishes for days and days! 😅
I love your videos!
I like that my state's story is just a creepy "me gusta" face trying to sell you sewing machines.
Personal favorite out of all these has to be the glare blindness one
The Louisiana one really fits
Gasoline Bath is wild.
I have a video of my cat eating corn on the cob. He also likes marshmallows, pizza and salt and vinegar chips.
WANTED: Any three of four boys who are able to beat the crap out of the Vampire Boy, and shave his head, to test whether his hair is the source of his unnatural powers. Reward to be six eggs per morning for six weeks.
11:00 that's the last place i expected to see a sex and the city reference in
16:18 LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
10:11 That's nothing, sometimes you could find products endorsed by Civil War generals. (As a Yankee, I have the utmost respect for the fact that Robert E. Lee turned down all endorsement deals he was offered.)
The lisp made me laugh so hard I scared my cat. GG
I always thought Monday the 13th was really unlucky. Can we just rename the entire Month of January, as, "Monday?"
We're going to party like it's 1899, at the Onion Party!!
This was a beautiful experience lol. All those great stories in one video was almost too much for one person. Keep it up.. you have such odd ball different video ideas and i love it. Unique. (Just btw couldnt wait for the Va story but we ended up with 2 Ky ones.. Cmon Va has some great weird tales😂).
It must be a bit of a comfort to know nothing has changed in California for 100 years...
1924: "What an idiot."
2024: "What an idiot."
I sincerely thought the VA one would be Lorena Bobbit lol
damn i wish we found out what happened to the store owners after jail
How many women showed up for the essay writing contest?! Who won? Did they really marry based on that? And live happily ever after? So many questions.
I liked the Harriet Ayers beauty book. I wish I had thought of that technique. Could have made a lot of money.
I think the vampire boy could have been possessed. Scary.
17:55 and i thought Farley did it first in Tommy Boy
damn those poor French babies, how're they going to acclimate to the US? they don't even speak english
Dude, that must have been one mean Virginian cat!
Heeeey, Pensacola, that’s where I am 🤣
Honestly the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania one could be repainted an i wouldn't question it. That sound like a normal Pittsburgher
I just can't with some of these. This was my expression throughout the whole video: o.O...
Literal "wut" syndrome. Antique America were dumber'n a sawdust brick.
Tyrone Powers was a huge movie star.
15:58 😟