Jim Kershner’s this day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

A local judge had no patience for a man who said he couldn’t support his wife because he “has an artistic temperament and hasn’t lately had inspiration to paint.”

The judge replied, “Nonsense! Artistic temperament is a fake. You’d make a fine hodcarrier. Why not paint a barn?”

A Spokesman-Review editorial writer said, “Amen, judge!” That brand of artistic temperament “shirks its duties as a man.”

From the tragedy file: It was a particularly gruesome day around the region. A 4-year-old boy in LaCrosse, Wash., was caught in the chain of his father’s threshing machine and cut to pieces before the crew could react.

In Spokane, an 18-year-old bicyclist ran straight into a rope that was being used by one automobile to tow another one. The bicyclist was knocked beneath the wheels of the second vehicle and killed.

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1882: The famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupted into full-scale violence. … 1912: Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for president by the Progressive Party in Chicago. New Jersey Gov. Woodrow Wilson accepted the Democratic nomination at his summer home in Sea Girt.