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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.
The article was a deliberate hoax designed to test the gullibility of readers and other journalists. His hoax succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. H.L. Mencken. Mencken's faux history of the bathtub quickly spread throughout the country.
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Apr 1, 2016 · The article, by journalist H.L. Mencken, was fascinating. It was also completely false. Mencken had made the whole thing up, partly for entertainment during the bleak days of World War I, but...
- Libby Nelson
Henry Louis ("H.L.") Mencken became one of the most influential and prolific journalists in America in the 1920s and '30s, writing about all the shams and con artists in the world. He attacked chiropractors and the Ku Klux Klan, politicians and other journalists. Most of all, he attacked Puritan morality. He called Puritanism, "the haunting ...
Dec 31, 1998 · Status: False. Origins: In 1917 the New York Evening Mail published a colorful history of the bathtub. The first tub in the United States, H.L. Mencken. wrote, had been installed in...
The bathtub hoax, and other blasts & bravos from the Chicago tribune by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Jul 9, 2010 · H. L. Mencken and the history of bathtubs: “Harmless fun in war days”. In “ A Neglected Anniversary ” (New York Evening Mail, December 28, 1917), H. L. Mencken took just 1,800 words to perpetrate a hoax on his wartime readers that continued to be cited as fact as late as 2008 (in a Kia television ad ).
