Monday, October 24, 2022

PWF #9 - PresidentialMania

The biggest pay-per-view event of all time features the most explosive card in presidential wrestling history:

  • Donald Trump vs. George Washington: The championship belt is on the line and so is ownership of the PWF--but if Trump wins, he gets to turn Mount Vernon into a casino.
  • Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis: At the Confederate Championship Wrestling's flagship pay-per-view SecessleMania, Lincoln can win back the PWF's southern territory, but he has to put an important constitutional amendment at risk of repeal.
  • Teddy Roosevelt vs. William Howard Taft vs. Woodrow Wilson: The transcontinental championship will be decided in an epic three-way ladder match.
  • JFK and LBJ vs. James Madison and James Monroe for the tag team championship.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt vs. Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump in a handicap match. 


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Monday, October 17, 2022

Presidential War #20 - Jimmy Carter Is Still Alive

The epic season finale of Presidential War is a clash of titans. Who was the better statesman: Thomas Jefferson or FDR? Who would win in a fight: Abe Lincoln or TR? Who was the better-looking president: JFK or Franklin Pierce? Were Andrew Jackson's two vice presidents (John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren) more accomplished than William McKinley's (Garret Hobart and TR)? Also, we marvel at the still-aliveness of Nicest Guy category champion Jimmy Carter in the wake of his recent 98th birthday.      

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Monday, October 3, 2022

25 William McKinley

William McKinley was a middle-class Ohio boy who received an education-by-fire in the Civil War, where his commanding officer and mentor was future President Rutherford B. Hayes. After the war, he followed in Hayes's footsteps as a lawyer and politician, overcoming family tragedy while working his way up into the Republican congressional leadership and becoming Ohio's governor. In 1896, he had no serious rival for his party's presidential nomination, and defeated populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a hard-fought general election that pitted silver versus gold.  As president, his masterful grasp of economic policy boosted the nation's expanding industrial prowess—but when he was confronted with a war he could not avoid, McKinley became responsible for guiding the United States through its international debut as an imperial powerhouse. As the 20th century dawned, the world would never be the same.

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Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy – The Ligonier Echo (Ligonier, PA) – August 28, 1901

Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy – The Emporia Gazette (Emporia, KS) – June 14, 1901

Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy – Record Searchlight (Redding, CA) – July 13, 1899

Rattlesnake Pete’s snake oil – Stevens Point Journal (Stevens Point, WI) – November 19, 1897

Rattlesnake Pete – The Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, MT) – September 12, 1897

Reward for garden hose thief – Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS) – May 5, 1898

Reward for school vandals – Oroville Daily Register (Oroville, CA) – January 17, 1901

Reward for turkey killers – Daily Mountain Eagle (Jasper, AL) – August 21, 1901

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – September 6, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – August 23, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – August 1, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Columbus Republican (Columbus, IN) – October 25, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – June 24, 1900

Scott’s Emulsion – The Cherryvale Daily News (Cherryvale, KS) – December 15, 1897

Owensboro Fair – Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY) – August 31, 1900



Monday, September 19, 2022

Presidential War #19 - Biggest Executive Branch

On this iteration of Presidential War, discussion topics include the statesmanship of Woodrow Wilson vs. Dwight Eisenhower, the First Lady accomplishments of Abigail Adams vs. Sarah Polk, and the deviousness of Bill Clinton vs. Grover Cleveland. Also, we face the horrifying prospect of either James Buchanan or LBJ dating our daughter!     

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Monday, September 5, 2022

24 Grover Cleveland (Pt 2)

Four years after being defeated for reelection, ex-President Grover Cleveland secured the Democratic nomination and, in an epic rematch, took down incumbent Benjamin Harrison to win an unprecedented non-consecutive term. Our 22nd president became our 24th president, but Cleveland's second term would unfortunately coincide with the Panic of 1893, a four-year economic depression the likes of which the nation had not yet seen. While his young wife gave birth to a growing family and he underwent secret surgery to remove a secret cancerous growth, President Cleveland would tackle financial crises, massive labor unrest, and growing pressure for the United States to assert itself as an imperialist power.

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A.E. Young has live quail – The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA) – November 18, 1894

Mrs. Dr. Bell treats ladies in trouble – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – March 19, 1893

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – May 12, 1894

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – January 15, 1896

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – January 3, 1894

Protestant vs. Catholic adoption agents – The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – August 10, 1895

Emma Bust Developer – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – September 16, 1894

Santa Claus Soap – Sterling Standard (Sterling, IL) – August 16, 1894

Santa Claus Soap – The St. Paul Globe (St. Paul, MN) – May 31, 1895

Santa Claus Soap – Logansport Reporter (Logansport, IN) – September 18, 1896

Divorce specialists – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – November 11, 1893

Man seeks lady of stout build – St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) – February 10, 1897

One-eyed widow seeks husband – The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) – November 18, 1894

Dr. Durand’s Heart Tablets – The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) – December 9, 1894


Monday, August 29, 2022

PWF #7 - World War III

The Presidential Wrestling Federation goes international in its latest pay-per-view spectacular, featuring:
  • Zachary Taylor vs. Santa Anna
  • Richard Nixon & Ronald Reagan vs. Nikita Khrushchev & Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Barack Obama & Joe Biden vs. Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong Un
  • The Bushes vs. Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden
  • John Adams vs. King George III
  • FDR, Churchill & Stalin vs. Hitler, Mussolini & Hirohito  

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Monday, August 22, 2022

Presidential War #18 - Murdered by the Clintons?

On the latest Presidential War, discover how James Buchanan and Warren Harding turn out to be winning cards while Abraham Lincoln ignominiously shits the bed. Also: one of the illustrious hosts of the Dead Presidents Podcast might not live to the end of the episode after he offends the wrong First Family.     

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, Seizes Barron Trump's Stash of "Tall Pills"

By James J. Hamilton
PALM BEACH—The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into the former president's 16-year-old son Barron. Federal agents have long suspected that Barron's growth to the towering height of 6 feet 7 inches has involved the use of controlled substances. People familiar with the matter say that the FBI seized a large stash of so-called "Tall Pills," which are not FDA-approved and are manufactured in an unknown foreign country. Importation of unapproved drugs is a violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and legal experts say that Barron could face a term of incarceration in a juvenile detention facility, where is likely to face many entreaties to join the basketball team.

Monday, August 8, 2022

23 Benjamin Harrison

President William Henry Harrison's grandson was adamant: "I am the grandson of nobody. I believe every man should stand on his own merits.”  Benjamin Harrison may have had a famous name, but he started a law practice from scratch, volunteered to fight in the Civil War, and lost several elections before he climbed to the top of the Indiana Republican party and landed a seat in the U.S. Senate. In 1888, his sterling reputation and his hailing from a critical swing state earned him the Republican presidential nomination. After unseating the incumbent Grover Cleveland, Harrison and a Republican-controlled Congress embarked on a more sweeping agenda than the nation had seen in decades. Four years later, Cleveland would return for an epic electoral rematch, but would the voters still be on Harrison's side? 

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Ozmanlis Oriental Sexual Pills – The Macomb Journal (Macomb, IL) – February 9, 1893

Mexican Mustang Liniment – The Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS) – September 6, 1892

Dr. H.B. Butts cures all rectal diseases – St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO) – September 10, 1889

Dr. H.B. Butts cures cancer – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – October 19, 1889

John S. Low Bottling Works – The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA) – April 23, 1891

Joseph Fleming & Son, Druggists – Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) – April 8, 1890

Export Whiskey – Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) – March 6, 1890

Dr. Haines’s Golden Specific – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – February 1, 1890

Drunkenness cured – The Grand Island Daily Independent (Grand Island, NE) – October 19, 1889

Nothstein boys on the loose – The Plain Speaker (Hazleton, PA) – January 13, 1892

Reward for rapist – The Detective World (Topeka, KS) – October 1, 1890

Milk twice each day – The Daily Republican (Monongahela, PA) – June 4, 1890