Man and Wife Killed By Gas

1920

New York. — Gas which escaped when a rubber tube was disconnected from a feed plug in the floor by a cat caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Weber in their Brooklyn apartment. The dead cat, its paws resting on the tube, lay under the gas stove.


Constantinople

Within its girdling walls Constantinople rises, like Rome on its seven low hills, crowned by the splendors of mosques, whose gleaming cupolas and minarets, silhouetted against the blue sky, look down on the waters of the Bosporus. A strange, incongruous huddle of palatial buildings and tumble-down hovels, of stately avenues, and filth-littered lanes, flanked by malodorous bazaars, through which the human tide streams and surges.


$31,632 Stolen From Post Office

Cleveland.—Thefts of $31,632 in currency and Liberty bonds, addressed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, from the mails by a former employee of the registry department of the local post office, were revealed.

—Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1920, page 4.