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He Did Not Carry Her Off

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
April
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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One of the Congregational ladies who were in attendance at the Jackson association convention which met in Ypsilanti last week, told a good story on one of Ann Arbor's spinsters, and, coming trom Ann Arbor herself and being a strict Congregationalist, there is no reason to doubt but what the occurrence actually happened. The Universiry city naaiden lady had long since passed that age at which the majority of girls are led to the marriage altar and inclined toward the companionship of a bicycle' to solace her advancing years. In taking pleasure in riding her wheel she often transgressed the city ordinances by occupying a portion of the sidewalks when on this pleasure bent. She was warned by her friends that the officers were enforcing the bicycle ordinance but paid no more attention to the proposed advice than the United States government does to the appeals of the Cuban junta. Finally an officer caught her violating the law one day and stopped her in her mad career. 'I want you," said he authoritatively, "to go down with me before a justice of the peace." "Do you really?" replied the maiden lady. "How perfecty lovely! I have been waitiug now for 30 years for some man to come and invite me to do that. Have you got the marriage licenseV" But officer of the law had fled before she could threaten any breach of mise

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News