Snakeskin fashion and college musings in 1925 chatter
A collage of quips and oddities from 1925 includes Ho bum and snakeskin in Berlin, debates on education value, marriages, robberies in Rock Island totaling 64 cents, a North Carolina professor hiring a lover, jury attitudes toward Kid McCoy, Pope County notes, an 82 year old lawyer still practicing, Paris items, germs and crosswords, lawsuits over Leopold and Loeb, a 12 year old selling poison booze in New York, postal rate gripes, a New Orleans burglar shot for a reward, and a fading image of Christmas candy.
Puzzle with fourteen matches makes five equal diamonds
A daily puzzle asks to place fourteen matches to form five equal diamonds with no leftovers. The text also recalls yesterday's solution about baskets and fruit totals, revealing arithmetic steps that lead to eleven baskets, and then computing the apples and oranges counts.
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Wembley showman plays Columbus on Thames in Halloween stunt
Arnald Pratt, a Wembley showman, was found standing in a canoe dressed as Columbus on the Thames. He told police he was returning from a Halloween ball and aimed to entertain revelers. He was charged with intoxication. The report notes ten of England's noted hangmen have attempted suicide in recent years.
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