Who knew a kitchen gadget, wielded by an angry wife, could cure a drunken husband? Businessman Francis Murphy of Omaha, Nebraska, “received” the cure in 1890. “A well-known prosperous business man, when he was a clerk, commenced the habit of going home drunk. He turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of wife and friends,” reported the Evening World-Herald. “Finally patience ceased to be a virtue. The outraged wife seized a rolling pin, beat him over the head and no doubt would have ki
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