Stole Hance's Rig and Money

New York, 1895

Benjamin Hance, of Far Rockaway, visited Jamaica on Sunday, and informed Constable Ashmead that a man named Piersen, in his employ, had stolen his horse, buggy, blankets, and $102. Saturday morning Hance received a telegram calling him to New York. Piersen drove him to the station. He then told the man to drive the horse home, and taking a roll of bills, $102, from his pocket, told him to give the money to Mrs. Hance. On his return in the evening Mr. Hance was surprised to learn that his wife had not seen Piersen or the money.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 12.

Bill-Poster Suit Up

1916

Washington, Sept. 23. — The government's suit to dissolve the so-called bill-posters' trust reached the supreme court yesterday on an appeal by the defendants, convicted in Chicago, several months ago, of combination in violation of the Sherman law. The appeal asks review of the trial and sets forth that the defendant organization, the Associated Bill Posters and Distributors of the United States and Canada, since the conviction, has been reorganized into the Poster Advertising company and the Associated Bill Posters and Distributors' Protective association.

Teacher Refuses Tribute to Santa Claus

1910

By Samuel Parker of Chicago

During the recent holiday season a teacher in one of the Chicago public schools was subjected to not a little criticism for refusing to pay tribute to the Santa Claus myth, declaring it to be wrong morally to teach a child a falsehood or to tell the child anything as a truth which it would discover to be false later on.

Instead of being a target for thoughtless ridicule that teacher should command the respect of every teacher and parent who conscientiously regards the moral training of children. The holiest thing this side of heaven is the faith of a little child and he who carelessly or purposely abuses it perpetrates a wrong from which the abused child seldom fully recovers. If parents and friends would sidetrack the heathen myth and bestow their endearing gifts in their own names the dear children would be just as happy and escape the shock of falsehood and deception at the hands of those who ought to love them too well to expose them to such danger.


Romance of the Future

"Do you see that cloud? It was behind one just like that that I first kissed you." — Town and Country.