Dead Cat

In Louisville, "Joe", old black tomcat, came in contact with a blade controlling the current of a 32,000-horse power electric generator, was electrocuted instantly, shut off every electric light in and near Louisville for five minutes, halted street cars, caused $500 damage, "temporarily obscured all but himself from the public eye."

"Menace"

In Boston, Motor Registrar Frank A. Goodwin decreed pictures of red, clad bathing-girls/- pasted on motorcar windshields and windows, "a menace," banned them.

Knocked

In Manhattan, Harry Gross, non-union window-washer, descended hurriedly from his 14-foot ladder, rushed into the building, hid under a desk, said he was afraid of union window-washers who were "after him." Reassured, he climbed up to work again. Four union men appeared, called to him to come down, shook the ladder when he refused, knocked it out from under him, fell upon him as he hit the pavement, "beat him up."

/-Knowing well the public's passion for decking out their automobiles with pennants, posters, pasters, the Jantzen Knitting Mills, Inc., began last June issuing red bathing-girl pasters to automobile agencies and garages. Though no prominent printing appeared on the pasters, they were advertisements for Jantzen swimming-wear for women. When slim, beauti-formed bathing girls proved popular, the company then tried out a clumsy, fat, comic mermodel for use on trucks, flivvers, etc. Circulation: 100,000 fat; 300,000 thin.