Policemen Must Use OwnI like this one mostly for the odd terms they use - but I guess "physical fitness" wasn't in the vocabulary yet.
Slenderizing Equipment
PITTSBURGH, July 30.—(AP)— Pittsburgh policemen and firemen who want to reduce will have to use other than city-owned equipment for the slenderizing process.
Council today voted down a proposal for the wholesale purchase of mechanical health and muscle builders. The plan called for placing one of these machines in each police and fire station.
“Well, I've been in the city for 30 years and I've never once regretted being a nasty, greedy, cold-hearted, avaricious money-grubber... er, Conservative!” - Monty Python's Flying Circus, Season 2, Episode 11, How Not To Be Seen
Friday, July 31, 2009
News From the Past - July 31, 1929
Today's selection comes from Titusville Pennsylvania, which I admit I wnet to because I once lived in Titusville Florida.
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