Harmon’s Histories: Dead cats tied to door knobs? No more Halloween hijinks!
It was the day before Halloween, October 30, 1908, and Major Sylvester of the Washington D.C. Police was fed up! He ordered his officers to “repress hilarious gaiety!”
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Harmon’s Histories: Montana’s Halloween pranksters were a ‘plague’ in the 1920s
“The Halloween nuisance annually recurrent in Helena, if known to the people of biblical times doubtless would have been included among the plagues of Egypt!” The editor of the Helena Record Herald had had enough!
Harmon’s Histories: Ghosts and graveyards gave early Montanans quite a fright
“We have, when a small boy, spent many hours in the early evening ... listening to thrilling ghost stories. There is scarcely a man or woman who does not honestly believe that he, or she, has seen and been chased by ghosts at some time in their lives.” So reported the Choteau Calumet on Halloween 1886.