Monday, May. 05, 1941
Found. In Siler City, N. C., embarrassed Attorney L. P. Dixon inserted an ad in the local paper: "Found--one liquor still--complete with cap and worm on or near my land. Owner please identify and pay for this ad."
Local Option. In Orfordville, Wis., citizens voted 121-to-113 against sale of beer, 126-to-121 for sale of hard liquor.
Best Man. In Brooklyn, N. Y., Salvatore Criscione, best man at the wedding of Charles Giangarra, was arrested for kidnapping him and holding him for $10,000 ransom.
Collegian. In Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Agnes Toczylowski, 24, sued her husband for leaving her and their two children, to play football for Louisiana State.
Sinister Society. In Chicago, the International Association for the Protection of the Rights of Lefthanders assembled for their first annual banquet, elected everybody vice president in honor of Southpaw Henry Wallace.
Recruit. In Camp Edwards, Mass., a recruit was discovered who had been taking all his meals at the canteen lunch bar because "on $21 a month I couldn't possibly afford to eat in the mess hall."
Birthday. In Alexandria, Va., Mrs. Nancy Stuart McCarter gave birth to a son (weight:, 7 lb., 7 oz.) on her twelfth birthday. Said Grandfather Oscar Stuart: "I guess she's broke all records for this part of the country, ain't she?"
Diplomatic Courtesy. In Paris, Frenchmen are tipping their hats as the subway trains stop at George V station.
Tariff. In Salt Lake City, a Utah Writers' Project researcher discovered that in 1862 frontier impresarios solved an old theatrical problem with the sign: Admission--adults, 35-c- babes in arms, $10.
Socks. Somewhere in England, Sapper Archie Campbell of Montreal went to his quartermaster for a new pair of socks. Attached to them was a paper saying they had been knit by Mrs. A. M. Campbell, 462 Ash Ave., Point St. Charles--his wife.
Example. In Philadelphia, Big Boy, for 14 years described by zoo officials as a fine example of a male Australian cassowary, laid an egg.
Collective Bargain. In Brooklyn, the New York Labor Relations Board recognized the United Construction Workers Organizing Committee (C.I.O.), Local 225, as the collective bargaining agent for John Boven, the single employe of an apartment house.
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