FULL TEXT: Columbia, O., Oct. 14. – When John Hopkins, living on a farm east of Columbus, had passed the physical examination for enlistment in the navy, he called his wife over the phone and told her his action was the outcome of a quarrel they had engaged in.
Then
Mrs. Hopkins called the recruiting officer to the phone and requested him not
to accept Hopkins’ enlistment until she got there. Thirty minutes later she
came like a whirlwind and went after Hopkins. Hopkins yelled for help, but as
he is a big man and his wife only weighs about 100 pounds, the officers let
them fight it out in five minutes Hopkins looked as if he’d just blown in on a
Kansas cyclone, and the woman stood by ready to load him home.
The
officers thought Hopkins would not make a very good defender of the nation when
a woman had to effectually cleaned him, so they throw the papers in the
wastebasket.
[“Whips
Husband In Public - Columbus Woman Proves He Has Not Making of Good Sailor.”
The Marion Daily Mirror (Oh.), Oct. 14, 1910, p. 6]
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