Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-20
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NEW YORK-Anybody who goes
into a New York restaurant and eats
a piece of cake and inadvertently
bites into a nail concealed in the
cake will have to pay his own dem
lists bill. That's what the court OF
appeals has just decided. A waitress
tried to collect damages after she
had bitten into a piece of cake and
got q hidden nail SO entangled with
her jaw that she had to have three
teeth removed. The court held that
the, cake eater had no ~contractual
relation with the manufacturer of
the cake, and therefore couldn't col
leet damages,
The West may be wild, but 1t must
be tame compared to New York. A
wild Texas steer brought on to take
part in a rodeo took Que look at the
Bronx, became wilder, dashed across
a park, out into the street, bowled
over a woman, and started to make
a bee line for his native state. Cow
boys and eowgirls tried to stop him.
But he just kept on going until a
cop, who probably never before saw
a live steer, went after him and
brought him down with his revolver.
For many years Abe Potash and
Mawruss Perlmutter, created by
Montague Glass, have amused audi
ences throughout the country. But
there was one man who never saw
the joke. He was Mr.. Abe Potash
Of New York. 1t was no laughing
matter to him to hear his name used
in jest. So finally he went to court
about it. He petitioned to have his
name changed to Harry Gilbert. The
Judge granted the request, and now
Gilbert, nee Potash, has inserted an
ad in the papers telling the world
about it.
Postmaster Edward Morgan threw
eight fits the other day when he got
a letter addressed: Postmaster,
General P~ostofiee, 3Srd street and
| Eighth Ave, New York" Inside was
a long letter headed, my Sweet
Love-" and signed "Your Sweet
heart" with several pages of amor
| Gus vaporings in between.
Crossed envelopes, / suppose"
says Morgan. Meanwhile l guess
Sweet Love has received from Sweet
| heart a complaint intended for the
| p~ostefiee bowling about the terrible
carelessness in the postal serviee!"
They're naming taxicabs like Pull
man ears and battleships now. A
new company in New York has the
name of a state painted on the doors
of each cab,
What's the most hazardous bust
ness in New York?
Running a tea-room! Yes, 1t is,
absolutely. Statistics show that more
tea-rooms fail and more new tea
rooms are opened up every month
in New York than any other single
enterprise. Proves what business
gamblers women are. There is even
a school that teaches you how to run
a tea-room. All you require to open
one is an empty basement, a couple
of cans of paint preferably Yellow,
| a couple of yards of cretonne (net
too faded), and a charge account
with a secondhand dealer. You
| ehristen it 1.-THE DEVILS Doorstep or
the linn Here" or some such attrac-
tive name, and then wait for the
sheriff to do his worst.
New York children are being given
| a chance to find out that milk
doesn't all come from the milk
wagon or delicatessen. Park Com
missioner Gallatin has opened a min
iature farmhouse and barns in Gen.
trail Park, and children who have
never seen a cow or pig have been
invited to look at the curiosities. One
of the first to come was a little girl
from Brooklyn. She recognized the
porker from a picture she once saw
in an ad, so she asked her father.
us that what gives ham?"