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' . i \( Monday's News-Times) jJacob C. Troyer, an Amish farmer,; a who was sentenced to the state penal ^ farm for ninety days Saturday, was ; «■£ taken to the jail yesterday, and placed with several other prisoners, who ^ viewed his luxuriant growth of ^ heavy black whiskers with a feeling o“! cof disapproval. Among other pris-: ^ oners was Frankie Yoder, 20, a'bar-i^ her, who is held on a charge of burg- j ^Jary. ! Jj BFrankie explained to Jacob that j J when he arrived at the penal farm j that his beard an(j head would be | ea ’haven clean. The attendants at the' ^farm who performed the barber dut-;\ies were not always gentle and con-; siderate of their patrons, he explained | and Frankie shed tears at the thought! of Troyer's suffering when he sholud . undergo the ordeal. IFrankie then explained that he was a barber and that as an act of kind- j ness to a fellow sufferer, he would j ? himself take the trouble to prepare I [fa him for the farm. He did, and when j «[j Sheriff Fonda appeared before the: nj prisoner's cell yesterday morning he , [[0 thought a new prisoner had broken! in. Troyer’s head resembled nothing : ^ so much as a billiard ball, but he has • three months in which to recover : some of the adornments.
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Middlebury Independent
Middlebury, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1922
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