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From our archives, 100 years ago

A father heard a young man on a streetcar flirting with his daughter and calling her a “rough-necked stiff.” (Apparently, that’s what passed for flirtatious talk in 1911.)

So when the father later saw the same young man on a porch, chatting with two other girls, he charged angrily up and gave him a tongue-lashing.

“He called me a liar, a low-down skunk, a low-minded roughneck that was not fit to associate with decent people,” said the young man. “Then he told me if I ever laid my slimy tongue on his daughter’s name again, he would punch in my pretty face for me.”

As it turned out, both the angry father and the young man ended up in court. The father was brought in on disorderly conduct charges for screaming abuse. The young man was charged with being a “masher,” in other words, flirting with and insulting a young woman on the street.

From the national park beat: Major W.R. Logan, superintendent of the brand-new Glacier National Park, came to Spokane to talk about the park’s first year: 2,500 visitors, and visitors were still coming. He said people were discovering that “we have the grandest mountain scenery in the world.”

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From the Associated Press

1948: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was declared.