Our Day On Earth

1916

F. E. Barlow, employee of Frankfort arsenal, Philadelphia, has invented a bomb, and offered it to the United States government, which is most deadly of aerial bombs, spreading gases over a radius of 100 yards. Bomb is six feet long and five inches in diameter, formed like a torpedo.

Webb Weeks, a young farmer, near Geneva, O, did not want to miss an early car to the county fair. His watch was broken. He slipped his alarm clock into the pocket of his overhalls so he could keep posted on the time. While he was busily milking a somewhat nervous cow the alarm went off. Weeks did not go to the fair.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 26, 1916, p. 1.

Note: 'O' means Ohio; 'overhalls' is original to the article.