Miscellany: Dupes

In Long Island City, L. I., pretty Ruth Miller offered to marry the first man who would give her mother $1,000. Frank Margraiti called and made a down payment of $500, Sukeji Sujiki called and posted $750. Miss Miller disappeared. Detectives last week arrested Ruth Miller at the wedding breakfast of a friend in New Bedford, Mass. Sadly the two dupes learned she already had a husband.

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At Hastings, Neb., friends of Mortimer Day, racehorse owner, heard that he had struck oil. So transported was Mortimer Day at the news that he gave...

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