yesterday's news
Ben Welter
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Be sure to catch Kim Ode's marvelous piece on the canoe craze of the early 1900s in Minneapolis and naughty boat names. A July 25, 1912, Tribune story lists more names the Minneapolis Park Board declared unacceptable:
"Among the names that drew special condemnation were: Ilgetu, Thehelusa, Kum-to-mu-kid, Joy-tub, Cupid's Nest, Half Shot, Ile-get-akis, "There's a Girl Intended for Each Man; We Are Looking for Ours," Win-ka-tus, "I Would Like to Try It," Aw-kom-in, G-I-Love-U, Ildaryoo, Skwizmtyt (squeeze me tight), What That, Damfine, Nothin-doeen, and O-U-Q-T.
"The commissioners said that it practically amounted to disorderly conduct to print such names on the sides of canoes."
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