GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2260, 4 August 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

An Act has just been passed by tiho Oklahoma Legislature making it a punishable offence for Iho piopr.etov of aiiv hotel in the State to use bed sheets less than Oft in length, or to expect his customers to use cracked china wire.

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