Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 November 1939 — Strange Facts [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Strange Facts

Bath Trains Jfound Cash Mouth Prints

As most of the private houses in the towns of Transylvania have no baths, the Rumanian government now runs “bath trains” through this section. Equipped with tubs, hot water, soap and towels, they offer free bathing facilities. The Chinese army awards a cash bonus, instead of stripes, to its soldiers when they are injured, privates getting $lO, officers S4O c uerals every wound. Bank clerks", pay-roll earners and night watchmen may now call for help during a holdup, without endangering their lives by” an alarming move, through a new radio transmitter that they wear under their shirts. Taking a deep breath closes the electric circuit which makes the set silently flash alarm signals to a central receiving station. Positive identification of horses has been found practicable through pnotographs or gutta-percha molds of the roofs of their mouths, which are as distinctive and individual as human fingerprints.—Collier’s.