Large\u002Dformat paper had room for most everything on the front.
The Oct. 28, 1922 Vancouver Sun, for example, had 19 stories on the front page, plus a large cartoon.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“The frank admission that he spanked his wife when she became incorrigible today won for Frederick D. Montford, banker of St. Paul, Minn., a reversal in the appellate division of the supreme court,” the story related.Article content “She jumped around and struck at me, finally losing her balance and falling to the floor. Her statement that I struck her, knocking her down, is a blamed, unvarnished lie, and she knows it.”
Montford “alleged he had found his wife, improperly clothed, in the bedroom of one Danton M. Fonzo, whom he had taken abroad to be of service as an interpreter. He declared that she kissed Fonzo, and clung to his neck in her husband’s presence.” “Doctors told Evans some weeks ago that he must die of tuberculosis and he wanted to sit down with his pals once more before the end came.
Sadly, Evans “broke down from weakness before he could finish his talk.” He died in December 1922, in East Orange, New Jersey.