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1 of 13From the May 25, 1925, issue of TIMETIME -
2 of 13Also from the May 25, 1925, issue of TIMETIME -
3 of 13Again from the May 25, 1925, issue of TIME. It must have been a rough week.TIME -
4 of 13From the Dec. 10, 1928, issue of TIMETIME -
5 of 13From the Dec. 9, 1929, issue of TIMETIME -
6 of 13From the Feb. 3, 1930, issue of TIMETIME -
7 of 13From the June 9, 1930, issue of TIMETIME -
8 of 13From the Nov. 3, 1930, issue of TIMETIME -
9 of 13From the Dec. 1, 1930, issue of TIMETIME -
10 of 13From the Aug. 10, 1931, issue of TIMETIME -
11 of 13From the Aug. 10, 1931, issue of TIMETIME -
12 of 13From the Dec. 7, 1931, issue of TIMETIME -
13 of 13From the Nov. 5, 1934, issue of TIMETIME
In the earlier days of TIME, the magazine ran a weekly round-up of local news items of note — and, as we pointed out earlier this month, it’s proof positive that funny flubs and weird happenings have always had the ability to go viral, albeit at a slightly slower pace than they do today.
But that “Miscellany” column, in the 1920s and ’30s, wasn’t just a repository of the benignly strange. On a regular basis, it also featured deaths and killings (and, as seen above, freak accidents that result in mere permanent blindness) that we can only hope weren’t meant to be funny. Here are a few of the strangest, most macabre items we could find.
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