Fox Hunters Bag Deer

1911

Witty With The News

Three New Jersey "sportsmen" who went out for fox hunting are on trial for killing deer. Possibly New Jersey rabbits wear horns.

The Los Angeles man who was sent to jail for 30 days for smiling at a strange woman evidently does not see the point of the joke.

Automobiles to the number of 460,000 are flitting here and there in this country, but all their flitting does not reduce the cost of mules.

The average life of a statesman is said to be 71 years. This doesn't necessarily conflict with the old theory that the good die young.

Those Chicago crooks who stole a 600 pound safe in the dead of night evidently missed their calling. They should have been piano movers.

Reckless automobile driving is to be eliminated.

And now will not the Pullman company reduce the porter's tips.

Don't mind the pessimistic weather prophet's prediction of a long winter.

Sledgehammer Bandits Raid St. Paul Safes

1920

Also Steal 800 Quarts of Liquor From State Asylum

ST. PAUL, Minnesota — The band of "sledgehammer" bandits, after looting more than fifty safes in Minneapolis in the past month, evidently have begun operations in St. Paul by raiding three Como avenue business places.

The lock of a safe at the Great Lakes Coal and Dock Company was hammered open and $500 worth of Liberty bonds and $40 in cash was taken.

The same gang is believed to have hammered the lock from the safe at the Carnegie Dock and Fuel Company, and strong box in the office of a third Como avenue company.

That the "sledgehammer" bandits have a taste for good liquor as well as safes became apparent when nine of them in three automobiles made an informal call on the State asylum for the insane at Anoka.

Eight hundred quarts of liquor, used for medicinal purposes, packed in the refrigerator, were stolen.


Hens Laying for a Record

LINCOLN, Nebraska — Twenty-six hens laid 23 or more eggs each during February in the national egg-laying contest being conducted by the Nebraska agricultural experiment station. One hen laid 28 eggs. She is a Rhode Island Red, owned by M. C. Peters, of Omaha. Two others, both White Leghorns, laid 25 eggs each. Seventeen hens laid 22 eggs each.

Archie Weaver Used Kitchen Stove As Safe

Decatur, IL, 1913

USED KITCHEN STOVE AS SAFE

Archie Weaver's Pile Looked Like Iron Money.

If you use the kitchen stove as a safety deposit vault or a burglar proof safe, don't leave the making of the fire in the morning to your wife. Archie Weaver, who conducts a grocery in the 2100 block North Main, having no safe in his place of business Friday night, carried home his money in a canvas bag and tossed it in the kitchen stove as the most unlikely place for burglars to look for it. It was an unlikely place for anybody to look for it and next morning a fire was kindled in the stove just as usual. After awhile Mr. Weaver thought of his cash and the fire was hastily drawn. The bag was gone and the money bore but slight resemblance to coin of the realm.

Fortunately there was nothing but coin in the bag and the heat required to reduce a beefsteak and boil coffee is not sufficient to fuse silver. The coin looked like iron money, but it was not mutilated and after Mr. Weaver had properly explained its unusual appearance it passed at par. After this Mr. Weaver will hide his money in the clock, bury it in the backyard or build the fire himself.

—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, Oct. 26, 1913, p. 3.