Today -100: April 4, 1926: If you’re being bribed by a forger, inspect the bag o’ cash very carefully

Kansas’s former governor Jonathan Davis and his son Russell are acquitted for the second time for taking a $1,250 bribe to pardon a forger. One wonders what the juries were thinking.

Communal fighting in Calcutta, which was set off by Hindu Samajists invading a mosque, kills at least a dozen. So far.

Italian organ grinders, some of them with monkeys, have left the streets of London in droves, following the order of Mussolini, who thinks they harm Italian prestige. Their, um, jobs have been filled by crippled & blind war veterans.

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