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Straw hats mashing orgy bears heads from battery to Bronx.

New York Tribune Saturday, September 16, 1922. Headline.

Straw hats mashing orgy bears heads from battery to Bronx.

Subheadline.

Stores do thriving business, but many youthful marauders are arrested, and seven are spanked at station by irate parents.

Article.

Boys who are guided by the calendar, rather than the weather, and most of all by their own trouble making proclivities.

Indulged in a straw hat smashing orgy throughout the city last night.

A dozen or more were arrested.

And seven were spanked, anonymously by their parents, in the East 104th Street Police Station by order of the lieutenant at the desk.

At every police station, the outgoing platoon was warned at eight o'clock to be on the alert for hacked hunting hoodlums.

And the police men were busy all night.

Some hat stores kept their doors open long after the usual closing time and did a thriving business in soft hats.

In some instances, the police reported that the youthful marauders were suspiciously active in the immediate vicinity of the stores.

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