Monday, Oct. 01, 1923
At Oklahoma City, a father appeared at a hospital carrying his baby girl, weight 15 ounces, length nine inches, pillowed on a hot water bottle in a shoe box, whom he had rushed by automobile 100 miles over muddy roads in a vain effort to save her life.
At Chattanooga, an applicant for enlistment in the Navy was rejected because upon his arm he bore a tattooed " September Morn."*
At Trieste, an insomnia contest prize of 1,000 lire was shared by a hairdresser and a bartender who stayed awake more than 97 hours.
At Florence, a man discovered asleep in a park on June 25 was reported to be "in a hospital, still sleeping."
At North Bergen, N. J., a man named P. Branniccangtuoanginy was granted the privilege of selling hot dogs at a political picnic.
In Berlin, a woman whose first and second husbands were respectively Protestant and Catholic married a Jew.
*The rules of the Navy bar from enlistment men with ''obscene and indecent tattooing 'upon their bodies."