Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1918 — Careless Papa. [ARTICLE]

Careless Papa.

They are telling, this one, which may or may not be true, in the centers of civilization along the Eastern seaboard. A youth hired as an office boy by a New York concern was explaining to his employer the necessity of his having steady employment. “You see,” he said, “I have to help support my mother, because papa isn’t with us any more.” “Is he dead?” asked the head of tbs concern, sympathetically. “No, sir; he’s not dead, but they’s got him in jail.” “In jail! What for?” v “Well, sir, he used to work in a bank over in Jersey, and they accused him of taking samples home.” —Saturday Evening Post.