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Show Bill PEEL IS 01 IE BLACKLIST A banana peel, carelessly thrown on the sidewalk in front of a Washington Wash-ington avenue store, nearly caused a serious accident yesterday. A woman shopper stepped on the slippery fruit casing and fell heavily against a plate glass store window. The window win-dow saved her from being precipitated precipitat-ed to the pavement, but her wrists were badly wrenched, sq great was tho force with which her hands, instinctively in-stinctively thrown out for protection, struck the glass. The occurrence was reported to the police department and Chief of Police Po-lice T. E. Browning Immediately Issued Is-sued a special order to the officers to arrest persons throwing fruit peelings peel-ings on the sidewalks. The practice, he said, constituted a menace to pedestrians ped-estrians and prosecutions would be made, if necessary, to eliminate it. |