THE "FOOT POWDER MAYOR" WHO NEVER WAS - 1967

THE "FOOT POWDER MAYOR" WHO NEVER WAS - 1967

Author: Forgotten News Podcast October 11, 2018 Duration: 21:09
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STRANGE — BUT FORGOTTEN: MINI-EPISODE # 5. In July 1967, thousands of newspapers, across the United States, published the news that a can of foot powder had been elected as mayor of a town in Ecuador.  But, the story was completely untrue.  How were they all duped?   HISTORICAL REFERENCES Foot Powder Wins Election, Hands Down, Reuters (news service), July 17, 1967.  Foot Powder Produces Headaches in Ecuador, New York Times, July 18, 1967. Correction, United Press International, July 20, 1967. The Foot Powder That Ran For Mayor (And Won), Mental Floss, September 2, 2012. The 10 Most Bizarre Politicians Ever Elected To Office, Buzzfeed, June 23, 2014. Foot Powder Wins In A Landslide, And Other Unsavory Election Trivia, National Public Radio (NPR), November 1, 2014. Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and Third Party Facts, Chicago Tribune, October 3, 2010. The 8 Most Successful Candidates Who Weren’t Human, Cracked, February 14, 2011. Was a Mayoral Election Won by a Foot Powder?  Snopes, February 2, 2006; updated February 26, 2018.   GUEST VOICES Guest Co-Host - Allyson Koplin of Dumb & Busted Podcast.  Reuters reporter - Scott Ennis  of Stories of Yore Podcast. UPI reporter - Isabella of Bella Parsons Illustration and @_bellaland_ Intro Narrator – Erin Fleming of Redrum Blonde podcast. Outro Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren of Forgotten News Podcast and Whispered True Stories Podcast.   MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 Americana I Knew A Guy Piano Cue One Sweeter Vermouth   Passing Through Jozi Bentley, host of the the Moo Point: A Friends Podcast and the My Dream Podcast.   SOUND EFFECTS Freesound.org: Typewriter with Bell applauses_theatre_woo_woohoo_hooligan   OUTRO APHORISM: Source:  Prof. Prof. Walter Kotschnig, quoted in The Smith Alumnae Quarterly (February1940), Volumes 31, Number 2, Chapel and Assembly Notes, Start Page 151, Quote Page 153, Published by the Alumnae Association of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. See also, Quote Investigator, April 13, 2014.   T-SHIRTS, MUGS, AND OTHER SWAG - NOW AVAILABLE! Just click here!   HEY!  CONTACT US:   E-Mail:  ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Forgotten-News-Podcast Twitter: @NewsForgotten @KitCaren   HEY! CAN YOU HELP US?! PLEASE HELP THE FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST TO COVER THE COSTS OF RESEARCH, INVESTIGATION, AUDIO EQUIPMENT. AND PODCAST HOSTING FEES.   ANY DONATION - EVEN A DOLLAR - WOULD REALLY HELP US OUT!   Just click on this PayPal link, to contribute. PAYPAL Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

There’s a certain kind of story that crackles with urgency when it breaks, dominating conversations and front pages, only to vanish completely a few years later. FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST goes looking for those stories. Each episode is a deep dive into a different moment that once captivated the public, an event or figure that seemed indelible but somehow slipped through the cracks of our collective memory. You’ll hear about scandals that toppled empires of reputation, inventions that promised to change everything, and personal dramas that played out on a very public stage-all now quietly gathering dust in old newspaper archives and forgotten diaries. The aim isn’t just to recount these tales, but to understand why they resonated so powerfully in their moment and explore what their disappearance says about how we remember. It’s a process of careful excavation, piecing together narratives from primary sources, historical accounts, and the cultural echoes that remain. Tuning into this podcast feels like opening a long-lost trunk in the attic; every story is presented with the immediacy it once held, allowing you to experience the surprise, outrage, or wonder just as an audience did decades or even centuries ago. These are the headlines that time edited out, brought back to life.
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