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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1940
Page
9
Sacramento reports two damage suits favoring the railway company after auto train collisions. A latest verdict grants the railroad $95.61 for train damage plus $92.29 for loss during repairs and $37.24 for a crossing sign destroyed in the incident involving Mrs. Bessie Sheldon of Folsom.
In Moscow the record books reveal Feodor Wassiliev a peasant as the father of 87 children from two marriages. His first wife bore 69 children including 16 pairs of twins seven triplets and four quadruplet sets. After her death he remarried and the second wife produced 18 more children including two sets of triplets and six sets of twins.
A Roxbury police blotter reports a holdup man claimed his partner stole the loot and was then robbed by two strangers, exposing a double tumble in the crime. The tale undermines honor among thieves and details the chain of thefts.
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