Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1917 — PEDDLER RECOVERS HIS CASH [ARTICLE]

PEDDLER RECOVERS HIS CASH

Identifies His Lost Roll by Odor of Onions. New York.—The much-maligned onion is a good friend to Simon Silverman of Brooklyn, who drives a fruit and vegetable wagon. Simon missed $32 just after he had delivered his last load to, a customer at Reid avenue and Kosciusko street. He told* Patrolman Gleason that he thought George Boland had picked up the bills. Boland, who was. standing near by, was searched a'nd a roll of bills found on him. “Are these yours?” asked the policeman. “My money always smell of onlpns,” replied Silverman. - ..■ Gleason took a whiff of the roll and when he.recovered "They’re yours, all right.”