Here and There — Miss Fairy Straley's School Closed

Pennsylvania, 1921

Miss Fairy Straley's school, Midway, closed on Tuesday. A summer school will be opened in Midway schoolhouse on Monday by Miss Ioma Yake to be conducted for the next eight weeks.

A .22 cartridge in a pipeful of tobacco exploded as Chas. Kappes was smoking in the Eagle's home, Gettysburg, on Tuesday night, shattering the pipe. The bullet just missed the head of Wm. Tipton, Jr., who was seated nearby.

When A. E. Walker, aged 42, of East Berlin R. D., was arrested by Patrolman Stayman for disregarding the traffic signal Saturday afternoon, he explained, not as an excuse at all, that altho he is the father of nine children and is a truck farmer, he clean forgot all about the traffic regulations. Chief Craver discharged him with a reprimand, declaring that a man with nine children, and who has nerve enough to buy an automobile, too, ought to have some consideration.

A service for the benefit of the starving Chinese will be held in Maple Grove chapel, near Abbottstown on Saturday evening. The Rev. Paul Glatfelter and William H. Menges, of Menges Mills, will be the speakers. A silver offering will be lifted.

George W. Rudisill, about 65 years old, a well-known farmer of near Glenville, was injured in a horrible manner Friday morning, and later in the day had his right arm removed at the West Side sanatorium, York. His arm was caught and shredded in a grain separator, which he was operating at the time of the accident.

—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1921.

Man's Pipe Shoots Bullet Through Cow

1920

Valuable Dairy Animal Dies Peculiar Death.

Smoker Gets Cartridges Mixed in With Tobacco — Tragic Explosion Results.

LYNN, Mass. — The "Queen of the Dairy" is dead, and she met her death in a very peculiar manner.

Jackson Bugger, proprietor of a local dairy farm, keeps thirty cows. The Queen of the Dairy was known by her peculiar markings. Some called her the "calico" cow, but Mr. Bugger named her the Queen, because she was his best cow.

On a recent afternoon Mr. Bugger's herd was in the barnyard. He went there to drive the cows into the barn. He stopped at the barnyard pump, took his pipe from his hip pocket, filled it with loose tobacco from his coat pocket, lighted his pipe and started to drive the cows into the barn.

Queen of the Dairy stood several feet away from the other cows. Mr. Bugger walked toward her and when a few feet away there was a loud explosion and his pipe was blown into countless pieces. Smoke filled his eyes. He rubbed them, and when the fog cleared away Queen of the Dairy lay at his feet dead with a bullet through her head.

Mr. Bugger says he was out in a back lot after dinner shooting at crows with a 32-caliber rifle; that he carried the loose cartridges in his coat pocket with his tobacco and that he placed a cartridge in his pipe which "went off," struck the cow and killed her.

He supposed he had removed all the cartridges from his pocket.

My Lady Nicotine — Curious Meditations on Smoking

1903

My Lady Nicotine

Curious Meditations Upon the Smoking Habit

There must be a great army of men who smoke an ounce of tobacco a day. Such worthy smokers are, of course, men of a philosophic and reflecting disposition, although they do not always care to favor the world with the results of the high meditations due to the influence of the soothing weed.

It will be new, even to many of these, to know that it would take no less than 9S years to dispose of a ton of tobacco at this rate of consumption, says Tit-Bits, and it will be still more surprising to consider the magnitude of this amount under various aspects.

The smoker of an ounce a day is almost invariably a faithful disciple of the pipe. He may submit to a cigar or a cigaret to please the ladies, but the pipe remains his true love. Hence we will first suppose that our ton of tobacco is to be sacrificed to My Lady Nicotine in the homely pipe. If the ordinary ounce packets in which the tobacco is probably bought were piled in a single column they would tower to a height of 2,700 feet. Arranged in a solid block they would form a cube of packed "shag" measuring 13 feet in every direction, or more than twice the height of a man.

We might conceive a pipe specially built to consume this mass. Such a pipe, if built on the plan of the familiar briar would be 100 feet long, and the bowl would be 20 feet in diameter. This bowl could accommodate 700 men. Should the smoker of such a huge pipeful prefer the "church warden" he would obtain a graceful clay 500 feet long.

On a low average two matches are used to each pipe of tobacco. After his 750,000 pipes the smoker would have used as many matches as would stretch from London to Coventry, or Bath or Gloucester, if placed end to end. The timber would be barely contained in a grove of 20 stalwart trees each 40 feet high. The heat energy represented, and which is largely water, would serve to run a locomotive a considerable distance.

We must not forgot that there are many who prefer the mild cigaret. Let us consider our ton of tobacco in this form. There will be a considerable difference in the actual number of cigarets consumed if the smoker makes his own in preference to buying them ready made. In the former case he will burn no fewer than 1,000,000 in fragrant smoke; a quantity which is placed in order would make a thin white line from London to Brighton, and in the latter case they would stretch for 37 miles. Placed side by side, they would pave a small pathway five miles long.

Could we make these cigarets into one huge whole, we should obtain a cigaret 10 feet in diameter and nearly 100 feet long. A man built in proportion to enjoy this little smoke would be a mere 2,220 feet high. The consumer of this tobacco may, like Svengali, be a lover of the big cigar of the Havana. If so, he must be prepared to spend at least £3,000, of which 500 pounds will be wasted in fag-ends.

Machinist Given Surprise Birthday Party, Receives New Pipe

Indiana, 1906

BOLINGER WAS SURPRISED

Carl Bolinger, a machinist at the Pennsylvania round house, was greatly surprised Wednesday evening, when fifteen of his shopmates marched in upon him unawares and announced that they had come to celebrate his birthday anniversary. As soon as the callers were divested of their overcoats they surrounded Mr. Bolinger and one of their number, speaking in behalf of all, presented him with a handsome and costly pipe. Games, music and luncheon followed the presentation and the guests declare they never had a more pleasant time.

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, January 19, 1906, page 11.