Chicken Pen, Decorated for Newlyweds, Causes Near Riot
A 1921 poultry show turned into a strange celebration when newlyweds found their chicken pen decorated with old shoes, tin cans and rewritten nursery rhymes. Then someone swapped a 14-pound…
Locked Codfish in a Cell: Coney Island’s Strangest Prisoner of 1897
In 1897, a Coney Island police-station doorman locked an 18-pound codfish in a jail cell for safekeeping. An hour later, the cell was open and the fish was gone —…
The Guinea Pig That Went Wrong: When a Temperance Lecture Backfired
A temperance lecturer in Paris had a foolproof plan: use four guinea pigs to demonstrate the dangers of alcohol. Then the sober guinea p ig ruined everything.