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H. L. Mencken1917. H. L. Mencken produced a fabricated history of the bathtub in 1917, for what he claimed was a humorous diversion in the dark days of the Great War and as a way to test the gullibility of readers. To his surprise, fellow journalists took the hoax seriously, and its fake facts found their way into news coverage of public health.
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Aug 1, 1999 · The Bathtub, Mencken, and War. “Not a plumber fired a salute or hung out a flag. Not a governor proclaimed a day of prayer,” wrote H.L. Mencken on December 28, 1917, in the New York Evening Mail. The occasion for the iconoclastic journalist’s lament was “A Neglected Anniversary,” so titled because, as Mencken declared, America had ...
— H.L. Mencken. The great bathtub hoax From "A Neglected Anniversary" Mencken commemorated the supposed introduction of the bathtub into the United States with this article in the New York Evening Mail, Dec. 28, 1917. It was taken seriously, but of course he made the whole thing up:
Content of hoax. On December 28, 1917, an article titled "A Neglected Anniversary" by H. L. Mencken was published in the New York Evening Mail. Mencken claimed that the actual anniversary of the first American bathtub, the alleged 75th, had gone unnoticed the previous week.
in the first place. Take, for example, H. L. Mencken 's " Bathtub Hoax, "written as light relief in the dark days of WWI, and never intended to bam-boozle anyone. - Ed. A NEGLECTED ANNIVERSARY H. L. Mencken* The success of this idle hoax, done in time of war, when more serious writ-ing was impossible, vastly astonished me. It was taken gravely ...
Dec 16, 2015 · Dr. Johnson Archer Gray, the author of the above article, was just one of the thousands of journalists and historians across America who were taken in by the most astonishingly successful journalistic hoax of the early 20th century. In 1917 H.L. Mencken wrote a colorful history of the bathtub, published in the New York Evening Mail. According ...
