Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-12-14
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visiting prisoners there might as
well line up and be searched.
An apparatus known as a "de-
telegraph" has been installed at
the Jail door to give the alarm
when anyone is attempting to
smuggle weapons, saws or files in-
to the prison. Boxes on either side
of the Jail door contain highly
magnetized devices which are on
nected with wires for transmitting
the signal.
The apparatus is "tuned" so
that small metal objects such as
keys, watches or belt buckles es-
cape the robot eyes,"
Minneapolis, Minn.-"Don't tell
a soul, but | have here a valuable
fur neckpiece / struggled into the
United States which I'll sell to you
for $15," said William Herman to
F. B. Schwartz, who told nobody
except all of his friends and the
police. They ordered Herman to
smuggle himself out of town
when it came to light that the fur
used to belong to a poor old tom
cat.
Pennington, Conn. = Twas
weeks before Christmas, so this
mouse figured it had a right TO
STRAND stir it did.
1t fell from the ceiling of the
courtroom right on the head of
Judge j. Ellicott Hewes. Wit
nesses howled as the judge, with
greater alacrity than dignity,
swept the intruder off his head.
Pittsburgh-From a lonely cab
in in the mountains nea Dubois,
Pa, comes the weird story of a
midnight operation performed on
j. j. Smith, former Texas oil drill
err, by two Pittsburgh surgeons,
using a straight razor as a scalpel
and corn whiskey as an a~ntisep-
tic.
DR.. Paul B. Steel and DR.. Lloyd
w. Johnson, on a hunting trip,
visited the cabin as their automo-
bile became stuck in the mud
roads.
Smith, suffering with a leg in
lection, had been confined to his
cot for a week. The surgeons per-
formed the operation with the
crude implements at hand and
bound up the wound with band-
ages ripped from sugar sacks
sterilized first in whisky. The
patient was doing we'll on last re-
ports.
Leek, England-John Robinson,
celebrating his golden wedding an
n~iversary, said that keeping peace
in the family has been no prob
lem at all-he stays home nights.
For so years he has stayed
home every night except one. "On
hat one night / sat up with a
sick FRIEND" he explains.
He's never seen the sea or a
movie-too busy staying home
nights.
Newark, N. IA pledge by
women to increase their weight
ten pounds in six months would
solve the farm problem, Mrs. Dor
othy Fuldheim, author and lee
turer, says. Delicate appetites
and bumper crops don't jibe,
thinks she.
Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia
"A ~one-legged mar who is hob
bling around the world on crutches
has arrived here after a journey
of almost two years from his home
city, Athens, Greece.
He is Spires Gannacopoulos,
and he lost a leg in the war. He
left Athens Dec. 9, 1880, and hopes
to complete his tour by 1886.
Up to now, he has travelled
through Rumania, ~Jugoslavia,
Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia,
Germany, Holland, Belgium, Lux
emburg, upper and lower Egypt,
Abyssinia, Kenya and Tanganyika.
Now he is on his way through
northern Rhodesia to southern
Rhodesia and the Union, and
thence to Australia.
He hopes to make a world rec
ord and publish a book about his
T.. experiences.
Indianapolis-A man with q
cold in his head,
To a gasoline station man
said:
"Just give me a quart;
"Ill take just a snort"
Which he did and now he
Well, he isn't dead yet, Mike Cir
vim, the filling station attendant.
was fearful of a suicide attempt
and called the police.
Two policemen overlook the
man. Wiping off his mouth he ex-
nlained CTS the best remedy in