Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1932

Mother In Chicago, Mrs. Lillian Pawloski wanted a divorce because four years ago her husband had eloped with her mother.

Bell In Seattle, investigating a subscriber's report that her telephone bell never rang but that she had learned to answer the telephone when her dog howled in the back yard, Telephone Repairman Roy Handley found the dog chained to the lead-in wires, causing a short circuit which shocked the dog whenever the number was called.

Sins In Senatobia, Miss., when Rev. William McCarty, 96, preached an old-style funeral sermon on the sins...

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