Milestones: Oct. 1, 1923

At Oklahoma City, a father appeared at a hospital carrying his baby girl, weight 15 ounces, length nine inches, pillowed on a hot water bottle in a shoe box, whom he had rushed by automobile 100 miles over muddy roads in a vain effort to save her life.

At Chattanooga, an applicant for enlistment in the Navy was rejected because upon his arm he bore a tattooed " September Morn."*

At Trieste, an insomnia contest prize of 1,000 lire was shared by a hairdresser and a bartender who stayed awake more...

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