Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1920 — Sugar Hog Punished. [ARTICLE]

Sugar Hog Punished.

A man who came out of the drizzling rain into a Cincinnati lunchroom late at night and ordered a cup of coffee and two rolls, complained when he got check for 14 cents, saying that the bill of fare said that coffee was 6 cents and rolls 4 cents. The proprietor explained that there was a charge of four Cents, because the man. sweetening his coffee, was too free with the receptacle that discharges one spoonful of sugar when Inverted. “I watched you.” the proprietor said. “You dumped five spoonfuls of sugar in your coffee.”