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Classic headlineDrunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
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OddlyTrue News Stand — March 25
One real weird headline, three odd happenings and a page from a 1912 newspaper. See the full Vintage News edition →
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Weird history on March 25
1878 First everLast issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers.
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1948 First everMeteorologists at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, United States, issued the world's first tornado forecast after noticing conditions similar to another tornado that had struck five days earlier.
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- 708 Oddly true
Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1912
Evening star (Washington, D.C.), March 25, 1912
Page 9 · mentions "weird" · printed on this very day
“TRIAL ON INDICTMENT DATING BACK 101308 Robert H Partridge Alleged to Have Secured 15000 by False Pretenses Robert It Partridge was railed to trial today before Justice Anderson in Criminal Court No 1 to answer an indictm…”
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