(Mich.) "News," laments the passing changes of the years in this fashion:
"Ten years ago if a fellow walked down the street with a bottle of whisky in one hand and a $20 gold piece in the other he would have been arrested for illegal possession of liquor. But today, if the same chap walked down the street with the same things in his hands, the G-men would be after him for illegal possession of the gold and he would be permitted to keep the liquor."
Apex of understatement in Billings (Mont.) "Gazette:"
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