130 Years Ago Hot hat: A Carson man purchased a $4 hat from Lilenfeld’s shop. He came home elated about his purchase and hung the hat on the kitchen stove pipe... In the morning his wife got up and built a fire in the stove. Scents of burning felt reached the kitchen just in time to ascertain that the hot elbow of the pipe burned its way through the top of his hat... Sadly, he spent the rest of the morning in repentance and blasphemy. 120 Years Ago Rippy’s delusion: Rippy rented a box from the Safe Deposit Company in …