“For Halloween we went out trick or treating ... “There was only the mischief of such ‘tricks’ as soaping windows, ringing doorbells and running away, or decorating trees with rolls ...

Halloween in early 19th-century America was ... “It’s sabotage. Soaping windows isn’t fun this year. Your government needs soaps and greases for the war … Even ringing doorbells has ...

In the 1930s, a long list of teenaged-miscreants who had spent Halloween night soaping windows, setting fires and tossing bricks at homes was published every year in the Nov. 1 newspaper.

While their brothers were out soaping windows and stealing gates, young ladies spent Halloween forecasting their future husbands. Looking into a mirror while holding a candle, she was supposed to see ...

how much candy loot would I be hauling in and would my parents catch me soaping their windows These days, I worry more about how many pounds I'll be gaining from eating all the leftover Halloween ...

Wrong! One Halloween, a neighbor checked out this guy’s basket as soon as he left for work and found it bare. That’s why he got himself one royal soaping, and then some!” “I have a few neighbors whose ...

president of Anoka Halloween. The journey started with some pranksters back in 1920. "All the time [they're] releasing cows into the street, tipping over outhouses and soaping windows and doing ...

Detroit saw a similar evolution in its Halloween Eve. Revelers went from pulling relatively innocent pranks -- soaping windows and toilet-papering trees -- to drawing national attention with the ...

"It's sabotage. Soaping windows isn't fun this year. Your government needs soaps and greases for the war." That same year, the Chicago City Council voted to abolish Halloween and instead institute ...

In the 1930s, a long list of teenaged-miscreants who had spent Halloween night soaping windows, setting fires and tossing bricks at homes was published every year in the Nov. 1 newspaper.