Today -100: February 23, 1926: Sometimes I want to kill, kill, kill

Arthur Findlay, manager of Wanamaker’s department store in New York, fails to get the pope interested in building a 6-hole golf course on Vatican grounds. It’s unclear whether he pitched this to Pope Pius personally.

Omaha captures its sniper. He’s a 45-year-old farm hand from Iowa. “Sometimes I want to kill, kill, kill,” he tells reporters.

The New York State Assembly kills a bill to outlaw “petting parties” in cars parked on highways. Assemblycritter Stone says the only supporters of the bill in the Assembly are men past the age where they’d enjoy a good petting party. Ass. Hutchinson, who supports the bill, denies having “passed the age when I am averse to such devotion.”

Politicians celebrate George Washington’s 194th birthday by debating whether he would have supported American participation in the World Court  and whether he’d have supported Prohibition.

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