100 years ago: Tattoo artists told to stop ‘torturing’ children
From our archives, 100 years ago
County authorities ordered the local “tattoo artists” at Spokane’s Penny Arcade to stop “torturing” children, on pain of arrest.
The order was prompted by the case of a child, age not specified, who fainted twice while being tattooed.
The county probation officer said the tattoo treatment was too severe for a child.
“If a man wishes to take such punishment, it is none of our business, but to make a spectacle of a child is more than we will endure,” the probation officer said.
From the brawl beat: Harry Schoning, 26, blamed his dentist for a street brawl in which Schoning “toppled citizens right and left with his fists” and then grappled with a police officer.
Schoning had a dental appointment earlier that day and had prepared for the pain by having “three or four drinks.”
He also claimed that the “dentist must have shot something into me,” because he did not remember anything between leaving the dentist’s office and waking up in jail. He showed the judge the “two vacant spaces” where his teeth once were.
Also on this date
1965: President Lyndon Johnson signed the act creating the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.