Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1931

Rumpus

In Little Rock, Ark., in a hotel H. G. Lansdale of Atlanta, Ark. telephoned the desk clerk, complained that W. U. McCabe. Arkansas State Legislator, was carousing most annoyingly in an adjacent room. Said H. G. Lansdale: "If you don't stop that rumpus I will." Forthwith he stomped into the room, shot and critically wounded Legislator McCabe.

Boy

In Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Anna C. Johnstone revealed that her late mother had forced her for years to masquerade as a boy in order to get a trust fund created in England by her...

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