Would you sell your tongue?

“Will you sell your tongue?”
That was an actual newspaper headline in 1911.

A Missouri girl named Inez Long nearly lost her tongue in a car accident—and her family did the unthinkable: they advertised in newspapers asking if someone would sell part of theirs.

Men across the country wrote in with offers.
Not one woman did.

This is the very first episode of Headlines and Tidbits, where I dig into strange, forgotten newspaper stories and the people behind them.

📰 Episode 1: Will You Sell Your Tongue?
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

(Story details sourced from original newspaper reporting, including the Cleaborn Times, August 19, 1911.)

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