Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. “A gentleman burglar called at my house last nlgjlj.” “Indeed! Did he wear a dress suit and apologize suavely for his intrusion ?” "Oh, no. He was a rough looking fellow, but when I told him that practically everything I possessed, including my watch, was bought on the installment plan and I was still paying so much a month, he said he’d been there himself while he was trying to ‘live straight,’ handed me 15 cents for a drink he had already taken out of my whisky decanter and wished me ‘good-night!’ ”