Word: phillipsburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bottles to be banished from the stands. The team, returning from Manhattan, was given a frenzied welcome. Rain fell at midnight. It was still falling in the afternoon. Standing on the pitcher's mound, the only dry spot on the field, Jesse Haines, a garage keeper from Phillipsburg, Ohio, held the Yankees to five hits. Still unsatisfied, he grasped a slim yellow bat and drove one of the deliveries of his opponent, furtive "Dutch" Ruether, into the right-field bleachers for a home run. Score: St. Louis, 4; New York...
...first time in over one hundred years, at least one of the old Blue Laws of New Jersey has been brought into action. On Wednesday, in the Warren County court, a wise and enlightened jury tried a citizeness of Phillipsburg, and after twenty minutes of deliberation convicted her of being a common scold...
Immediately thereupon arose an interesting legal point. The old law, still on the statute books, commands that any person so convicted be ducked forth-with upon the town ducking stool. Unfortunately for a strict observance of the letter of the mandate, however, all Phillipsburg's ducking stools were either in museums, which refused to give them up, or else had long since been smashed into kindling wood to light Phillipsburg fires of a winter morning. The Judge was in a quandary. The law commanded him in unmistakable terms to have the malefactress ducked; on the other hand, even a judge...
...this learned physician unloosed the lady's tongue, and since from then on it was never still, the brow-beaten husband had the doctor tie it up again. But such benign doctors only lived in the Middle Age or in Shaw's imagination. Therefore the one hope remaining to Phillipsburg is that tht Damocletian sword of suspended sentence will shortly fall and that the minions of the law with cotton-stuffed ears, will hail this Xantippe to some wild and lonely tower...