The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-02-02
ODD THINGS IN 1905
Freaks Of the Year, Some Fun
ny, Others Tragic.
THERE WAS S0METHIN' DOM
Much Going On to Vary the Monot.
ony Of Life; What Happened Is
Interesting Enough.

dreary Journalism should consider a few
| of the odd events and the freak record
smashers of 1905, as observed and set
down by the chroniclers of the period.
The incidents cited are but samples and
might be multiplied indefinitely. Who
can be melancholy when such things are
going on?
| For instance, on one of those rare
June days that the poets tell about a
| Philadelphia woman willed hes sister
$3.50 on condition that she would always
allow their father to have ''all the cigars
he wants and also all the vests he likes
| to wear
Pittsburg furnishes several episodes
that livened things up a bit. A brave
woman in that city wore hoopskirts
through the streets, causing crowd to
assemble, which impeded traffic and had
to be dispersed by the police. Another
Pittsburg woman, finding that tele-
phone company was preparing to string
wires about her house and had already
dug six holes for poles, became exceed
ingly wroth. Having six children, she
| deposed a child in each hole and then
defed the workmen to proceed.
Pancakes broke up an Iowa home in
the snappy days Of February, when
hapjacks are supposed to hit the right
spot. At Sanborn Mrs. Carrie Fields
got a divorce from Dr. H. S. Fields be-
:ause the husband did not like her make
of pancakes and ridiculed them. She
testified that the expression on the doc
tors face while eating the cakes was
such that it might work permanent in
jury to her health.
The high water mark in family quar-
rels was reached in Kansas City Ono
raw January morning found Mrs. Their
esa Schujul and her husband John in
the police court, where judicial aid was
invoked to shake ,Fahr loose from his.
domestic moorings Theresa had given
nm 500 to leave her and never return.
but he kept the promise only till the
money was spent. Then the wife con
fided to the court that she and John
were married in Germany fourteen
years ago and had quarreled every day
'ince, which means total of more than
5000 quarrels.
The champion ice cream eater of 100;
was not, as many might suppose, a sen
timental young woman, but husky
street car conductor of West Philade,
Dha. A wager of S. and a voracious
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yastronomic feat of hiding away fifteen
plates of ice cream, a pork sandwich
md a glass of milk to top off with, all
within two hours and without sub
sequent funeral notice
With a record of having served more
than 100000 drinks at Philadelphia
hotel, Tomaso Ruggo, in March celebrat
I'd the twentythird anniversary of his
employment there, his drink checks fig
,ring up S6ll,9l5.
1t is well known that good deal of
beer is drunk at Munich at all times
but during an unusual hot wave in Sep
ember the thirsty inhabitants of that
rtv made a record. The heat lasted
ons of beer was consumed, or two and
>ne-half gallons for every man, woman,
md child in the city.
"The average length of married life
seems to be two months" remarked
Judge Dunno, in March, when Job
lot of divorce cases was being disposed
IF in his court This was before he was
'lected mayor of Chicago.
On the same day eleven divorces were
granted by three Cook county judges
including Judge Dunno, who had the
argest grist in the legal hopper. The
average time consumed by the hearings
which preceded the issuance of the de-
rees was eight minutes. One hearing
took only three minutes. Three took
Dnlv four minutes each. No more than
fifteen minutes was devoted to any of
he eleven cases. This was a divorce
tearing house record that is hard to
beat.
Divorce being so often the sequence of
| marriage, this seems an opportune point
It which to insert the st. Joseph
Mich.l record in wedlock. Figures in
licate that the wholesale marriage rec
ord of st. Joseph for 1905 would eclipse
that of any preceding year. More than
1900 licenses had then been issued.
md the rush will still be as great as
Turing the summer. st. Joseph is the
t,retna Green of Chicago, and excursion
boats give rebate to couples showing
/, marriage certificate on their return
trip.
The years best record for maternity
was furnished by Indiana. On Oct
g Mrs. Clara Krauss of Coal City gave
birth to her twentieth child. Her rec.
ord includes no twins. This noble moth.
,r. who is doing what she can to pre-
ent race suicide, has been married only
twenty five years, and is now only Al.
Among centenarian tobocco users who
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