FIPS DAILY ALMANAC: Friday, April 13, 2012
J. Charles | Friday, April 13, 2012 at 12:00AM 
illustration by Steven Weinberg
Rise and shine FIPSters, and welcome to your day! It's Friday the 13th y'all, so remember to avoid walking under ladders (or some crap like that). In sports news, The Rangers pulled off a win against the Senators, so the guy in this week's FIPS cartoon will be pleased. And in international news, North Korea can't get it up (their rockets, that is).
ON THIS DAY IN BK HISTORY (1900):
Back in the day, one Sheriff Walton couldn't nab some guy standing outside of school houses selling liquor-filled candy to school kids (where was this guy when I was school?!). Even better, he had a lottery game where some of his confections also had a penny shoved inside of them, so if you were the lucky kid, you could make a penny AND have some candy! Is that genius or what? Says the article: "The objection to this candy containing pennies is not only that it may encourage a taste for gambling, but that the metal is frequently found to have corroded the sugar to an extent which makes eating the candy injurious, if not actually dangerous" (but maybe it got kids interested in math?)
[READ THE ARTICLE FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ARCHIVES]
ON THIS DAY IN FIPS'TORY:
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