Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 48, DeMotte, Jasper County, 17 October 1940 — Strange Facts [ARTICLE]

Strange Facts

I Roving Banks Prison Board Bill * Odd Sugar Sources * CL About a century ago when some states allowed banks to move from town to town at will, many went into hiding so their notes could not be presented for redemption in gold. One of them, the Bank of Morocco, was found by detectives, after a years search, in a cabin in a dense Ind:ana forest CL Although Michigan enacted a law in 1935 requiring prisoners who are financially able to pay for their maintenance (about a dollar a day) the sthte has only been able to collect this payment from two of the approximate 20.000 persons who have passed in and out of its prisons during th ; s time. CL One of the strangest cases of human albinism occurred in Africa some years ago. A Negro couple had three white and three black children, born in the following order—two consecutive black boys, two consecutive white girls, one b’nck girl and one white boy. CL Of the hundreds of different kinds of sugars, some of which are bitter and po sonous, many are made from such odd substances as seaweed, cotton meal. chicory, dahlias, artichokes and ivory nuts. —Coßier’s.