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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8653, 11 February 1914, Page 9

The safest railway line in tlie world on girt to "be the Illinois Central. No other railway, certainly, has earned its precautions against accident into such minute detail. A general order has been issued prohibiting drivers, firemen and conductors —everyone, in fact, who is concerned with the actual running of the trains —from carrying on their watch-faces pictures of sweethearts. wives, or babies. Such pictures, it is explained, are likely to distract the attention of employees from their work. Philip Leborsti, after frightening hLs wife by climbing on the roof of his ! louse, told the judge at Milwaukee that ho was trying to forget that ho was married, and had succeeded iu forgetting the date of his wedding. The judge sentenced him to repeat that date. u Juno 14th. 1887,” ten times a day for sixty days, or in default to go to prison. His wife will keep count.