# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQIYER9DIBb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/36138922-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-23T00:01:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

## Caption

On the morning after Halloween 1938, the Des Moines Register ran a grim tally: 550 vandalism calls in a single night, with teens soaping windows, derailing streetcars and hurling bricks at homes.

Out of that chaos came order — Beggars' Night.

Starting the next year, trick-or-treating was moved to Oct. 30, the night before Halloween, when children were told to trade pranks for performances, earning their candy with riddles, songs, or the all-too-familiar groan-worthy joke.

But now nearly 90 years later, it is coming to an end. After last fall’s storms forced thousands to trick-or-treat on Halloween, and surveys showed residents preferred it that way, the metro has made it official: Beggars’ Night is over.

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#DesMoines #Iowa #DSMUSA #BeggarsNight #Halloween

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beggarsnight, halloween, iowa, dsmusa, desmoines

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