Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1918 — HUG BY PRETTY GIRL ENDS IN LOSS OF $130 [ARTICLE]

HUG BY PRETTY GIRL ENDS IN LOSS OF $130

San Francisco—A long hug by a pretty girl cost Charles Smulters, of this city, $l3O, and the fact that the young woman was beautiful does not console him in the least. Smulters told the police that he was walking down the street when the “fair young thing” threw her arms aboiit his neck babbling terms of endearment with vehemence. Smulters struggled a half block before he could break from her embrace. Then he discovered that his wallet was missing.