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His Hat Full Of Eggs

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Have you heard of the latest novelty in hats?" inquired a man of his companion, as they were each quaffing a mug of brown stout "No, wbat is it?" was the response. "Well, it is a hat worn by a man who serves morning papers on a suburban route. A number of bis customers, nearly all of whom keep chickens, have noticed forseveral weeks past that their eggs had acquired a habit of disappearing each morning, after the paper was deposited on the sill of the kitchen window. Suspicion feil upon the dispenser of .the products of the press, and a watch was set, although no one could imagine where he could stow the eggs. The denouement wa3 startling in its novelty. "On one side of his hat, which wa9 a stift one, he had a panel that worked by a spring. He would pull the latter, the panel would slide back, in would drop the egg or eggs, and back would spring the panel. By this method he managed to carry home every day a dozen or more eggs. At last fashion and utüity have joined

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register