May 11
1901: Toledo police arrest a man they call “Jack the Clipper.” He is accused of using scissors to clip the long locks of several girls and is later identified as 35-year old Ross Mounts, a county clerk from Bloomdale.
1909: News articles are being published nationwide about the death of Toledo’s Alanson Wood, the inventor of the roller coaster. Wood is memorialized as the forgotten innovator of the “ride that made people scream.” He was 80 and died in poverty in Toledo…