Drawing from the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper on Thursday April 1, 1915 – one hundred years ago today. Captioned “Don’t Believe Him. Today Is All Fools’ Day” (as they seemed to like to call the day then). Watch out for pranksters today!

A Poem, also published in the newspaper circa 1915. This piece of poetry is called ALL FOOLS DAY, and was published in a San Francisco Chronicle newspaper column called “Bits For Breakfast”. Relating typical pranks of the day like finding a purse on the ground only to have it pulled away by young boys via string, parcels that contain bricks, and funny phone calls. Judging by this poem, seems like most pranksters of the day were expected to be what this bit calls a “1st of April boy”.

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In this newspaper cartoon titled “The Bravest Man” from August 13th, 1915, we find two sharply-dressed men discussing a third man – First man: “He is the bravest man I know.” Second man: “Why?”.  First man: “He’s trying out his new saddle horse on Friday the 13th!”. Yes, a brave move indeed! Love the image of this man’s checkered suit complete with straw hat and cane.

And here is a real-life newspaper story from August 14, 1915 relating the tale of a Baltimore man who had a real “Hoodoo Day” for himself the day before, on Friday the 13th – found by the cops with his arms entwined about a lamp-post after getting drunk on 13 drinks, then thrown into the drunk tank and placed in cell number 13! Yikes. (The guy also happened to live at a number 13 address.)

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