August 19, birthdays for John Stamos, Matthew Perry, Kyra Sedgwick
Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 232nd day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1913, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Farmers Invade Flatbush.”
The article focused on a coalition of housewives in Flatbush who staged a creative protest against the high cost of living in the area.
“That their threats to return to the good old days of the thrifty market-basket … were not idle, was forcibly demonstrated today when two huge wagons loaded to the top with vegetables and [a] garden truck passed through the fashionable sections of Midwood and Ditmas Park, disposing of their wares at prices that made the neighboring grocers and hucksters gasp for breath,” the Eagle reported.