Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — No No. 13. [ARTICLE]

No No. 13.

The other day one of the clerks at the Tod House remarked, as a frequent visitor to the hotel inscribed his name on the hotel register: “I will assign you to room 18.” The commercial man almost gasped for breath at the exclaimed: “No, you won’t. I’ll sleep on the office floor, or in the wash-room rather than retire in room 13.” The clerk, with a merry twinkle in his eye, rang the bell boy, and, handing him a key, said: “Show the gentleman to No. 72.” Afterward the clerk said; “It’s a fact not generally known to the outside world that there are but few hotels in the country that have rooms numbered either 13 or 113. Half the time they would be unoccupied, so superstitious is the traveling public.” —Youngstown (0.) Telegram.