Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1916 — Offending a Celebrity. [ARTICLE]

Offending a Celebrity.

“I offered an ex-convict a Job yesterday, hauling bricks.” “Well?” “You should have seen the pained look he gave me.” “What was the matter with him?” “It seems that he had been editor of the prison magazine, president of the prison dramatic club and had achieved fame as an intramural poet.”