“On the Blotter,” a daily police log that appeared in the Minneapolis Star in the late 1930s, is reminiscent of the Arcata (Calif.) Eye’s marvelous Police Log. Sometimes the news just writes itself:

ON THE BLOTTER

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A plate glass window in the Tydol oil station at 15 Second street N.E. was smashed early today. Police blamed labor trouble.

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Raising a ladder to get on the roof of an adjoining building, burglars then smashed a window in the Crescent Laundry company, 2016 Washington avenue N., entered and stole a fountain pen, a razor and 12 cents.

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From the loot taken police concluded boys were responsible for a breakin at Clarence Storm’s beer parlor at 4162 Washington avenue N. The loss included a box of candy, a box of gum, 250 pennies and one-half box of cigars.

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John Bies, 900 University avenue S. E., told police two men held him up near his home at 2:45 a.m. today, emptied his billfold of $43, returned the billfold and fled.

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An East side police squad went to a filling station driveway at Nineteenth and Como avenues S.E. when a woman reported boys playing with dice. Apparently she failed to take notice of spring, police said, for the boys were playing marbles.

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Sent to Norway hall, 2902 Chicago avenue, to quell a “riot,” Patrolman Cliff Zane and E.W. Peterson reported back to their station that it was not a riot. “Just a good Farmer-Labor meeting,” they said.

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James L. Waddell, 26, Union City Mission, will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon for a knife attack on Ray Rome, manager of the East Side store of Sears Roebuck & Co., 421 E. Hennepin avenue, Saturday night, Detective Supervisor John C. Hilborn said today. Waddell allegedly cut Rome while being searched as a shoplifting suspect after he had been seen taking a radio.

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Eighteen cartons of cigarets and a small amount of cash were taken by burglars from the grocery of D. Moses, 500 E. Twenty-fourth street.

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A pair of binoculars and $15 in pocket knives were stolen by burglars at the George Thornquest hardware, 748 Adams street N.E.

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