Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — Damaging Admission. [ARTICLE]

Damaging Admission.

“The baby weighs twelve pounds, floes he?’ said the proud youug mother. “Are you sure the scales are correct ?” “Correct!” exclaimed the equally proud young father incautiously. “Of course they are. They're the scales 1 always use for weighing the fish I catch.” —Chicago Tribune.