SEPTEMBER 15, 1935

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• Headline: Miss Phillips Presides at International Meeting. Impact: Miss Phillips' journey to Brussels sparked an unending series of international business meetings, culminating in a global obsession with PowerPoint presentations. You're welcome, world.. Fact: The last-minute decision to sail instead of fly was the beginning of the 'business cruise' fad, which has yet to be recognized as an actual productivity booster..
• Headline: Reforms of Soviet Child Welfare Systems. Impact: The USSR's reformatory decree led to a culture of 'reform' that eventually inspired countless dystopian novels. Thanks, Russia, for the literary inspiration!. Fact: The term 'waifs' was later adopted by fashion designers to describe models who looked like they had just escaped a reformatory..
• Headline: Bulgaria Seizes Plotters, Halts Reds' State Plans. Impact: Bulgaria's crackdown on plotters not only delayed a communist revolution but also inadvertently inspired a generation of spy novels that would later become popular beach reads. Plot twist!. Fact: One of the arrested plotters later turned into a successful novelist, proving that even failed revolutionaries have a shot at the literary world..
• Headline: Food for City's Needy Tops 12 Million Pounds. Impact: The distribution of over 12 million pounds of food led to a spike in the creation of community gardens, which ultimately contributed to the rise of the hipster farmer. Thanks a lot, city planners.. Fact: If placed end to end, those 12 million pounds of food could stretch from New York to the moon and back. Just kidding, but it would definitely make a good salad!.
• Headline: COST OF DEPRESSION IN HEALTH REVEALED; Surveys of Public Health Service Disclose Waste of Unemployment In Terms of Human Resources. Impact: The revelation about the health effects of depression led to an increased focus on mental health, resulting in the now-ubiquitous 'self-care' trend. Thanks, Great Depression, for paving the way for bubble baths.. Fact: Surveys revealed that 90% of people believed 'self-care' meant eating an entire pint of ice cream—clearly, the original researchers were not included in the study..
• Headline: Front Page 1 -- No Title. Impact: The mysterious 'Front Page 1' led to a generation of news editors believing that headlines don’t need to make sense, thus paving the way for clickbait articles. The more you know!. Fact: This headline is so vague it could be the title of a post-modern art exhibit. Or a bad novel. Or both..
• Headline: FHA Permits Use of Broker.. Impact: The FHA's decision to allow brokers opened the floodgates for mortgage applications, leading to a housing market filled with more twists than a soap opera. And we all know how those end.. Fact: This decision was the precursor to the infamous 'broker fees' that are now synonymous with the phrase 'surprise, surprise!'.
• Headline: ONCE AT WOODHALL. By Frances Lowry Higgins. With drawings by Allen Lewis. 187 pp. New York: Harper & Brothers. $1.75.. Impact: Frances Lowry Higgins' book about Woodhull inspired numerous future authors to write about their own mundane experiences, giving birth to the genre of 'auto-fiction,' which is just a fancy term for 'I have nothing to say.'. Fact: The $1.75 price tag back then is equivalent to about $30 now—because who wouldn't pay a small fortune to read about someone else's life?.
• Headline: STATE FRUIT CROP IS GOOD.; Apples, Cherries, Peaches and Grapes Are Abundant.. Impact: The good fruit crop led to an oversupply of apples, which accidentally started the tradition of bobbing for apples at Halloween parties, much to the dismay of dentists everywhere.. Fact: Despite the abundance of fruit, no one ever bothered to turn it into cider or pie until much later. Priorities, right?.