Daily Bread for 5.11.12

Good morning.

Today looks to be a fine day – mostly sunny with a high of seventy-six.

That makes this afternoon a perfect opportunity for Great Flowers and Gifts at the Floral Villa Cash Mob —

Floral Villa, at 208 Wisconsin Street, is hosting a cash mob event this Friday from 4 to 6 PM. A cash mob is practice where a group of people assemble at a local business at a specified time to make purchases. It’s just the time, for example, for Graduation or Mother’s Day gifts.

Janesville, in 1931, was still battling over Prohibition, as the Wisconsin Historical Society records:

1931 – Janesville Police Nab Prohibition Violator

On this date Clifford Conn of Crandon was apprehended by Janesville police officers with 90 gallons of moonshine in his car. This was the largest single seizure of illegal alcohol by local law enforcement to this date. For the offense, Crandon was fined $700 and sentenced to two months in jail. [Source: Janesville Gazette]

Lots of elements to Google’s daily puzzle today: “What economics book, written by a clergyman, helped an English naturalist formulate a model of speciation that was controversial with creationists?”