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The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Strange And Unusual Headlines | Beware Blue Eyes

The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, History

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this new, weekly addition to the podcast, The Strange and Unusual Headlines, we discuss an article from the San Francisco Chronicle in 1921: "Beware of Blue Eyes!” "More Alluring Than Grey or Brown Eyes, Declare the Doctors, Who Would Banish All Blondes, And Hide Blue Eyes Behind Smoked Glasses"

Transcript

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This is a Strange and unusual headlines with Alice and Horrocks.

0:42.0

And welcome to the Maiden episode.

0:45.0

Beware of blue eyes.

0:55.0

And a strange and unusual headlines.

1:24.0

I will be searching old newspapers for, well, Strange and unusual headlines.

1:30.0

And we'll bring these truly odd and usually obscure articles from the past to you.

1:37.0

In addition to the normal episodes, headlines will come out every week.

1:43.0

And this first one made me do a double take.

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So let's begin.

1:54.0

The Severance Disco Chronicle March 6, 1921.

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Headline.

2:07.0

Beware of blue eyes.

2:09.0

More alluring than gray or brown eyes, declared the doctors.

2:13.0

Who would banish all blondes and hide blue eyes behind smoked glasses?

2:22.0

Inspector Thomas Lumsden, an investigating official in the service of the Board of Guardians of the Poor at Leeds, England,

2:30.0

is the authority for the interesting statement that 90% of runaway husbands and wife deserters are blue eyed.

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