Monday, Oct. 31, 1932
"TIME brings all things."
'Legger
In Manchester, N. H., when Costas Tergis, 70, was charged with keeping liquor for sale, his mother Efrosie Tergis, 103, pleaded guilty in his stead.
Fireman
In Manhattan, a clinic patient sitting in St. Vincent's Hospital waiting room late at night saw another patient leap suddenly into the air, cry out, "I'm a fireman! I'm a fireman!" and fall back dead. Examination showed he had a dagger between his shoulder blades.
Places
The Associated Press discovered that Mississippi has places named Hot Coffee, Whynot and O. K.; Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York.
Duel
In San Rafael, Calif., seeing Prowler A. Monti enter a house, Deputy Sheriff George Smith followed, confronted Monti. Drawing his pistol, Deputy Sheriff Smith shot himself in the hand. At the sight of blood Prowler Monti gave himself up.
Champion
In Boston, Walter L. Colburn won a pair of tickets to a boxing match by guessing that Harvard would beat Penn State, 46 to 13. It was his 235th contest prize. In 26 years of contests he has won over $2,000 in cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story-I-Ever-Heard contests with the following: "So you and your father know everything? Well, what's the capital of Africa?
"Oh, that's one of the things my father knows."
He renounced all contests to make as many words as possible out of a given trade-name when a competitor topped by 300 words his list including every possible word in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, and went blind. His granddaughter Doris Kelly, 15, has guessed right 29 times.
Solution
In Manhattan, an advertisement in the Public Notices column of the Herald Tribune read: "AUTHOR-Economist offers lien future royalties, security for board and research expenses. Completing comprehensive work for publication. Believes found solution intergovernmental debt problem and keys to recovery.''
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