Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1935

Husband

In Manhattan, to get money for a ticket to Ireland, Mrs. Fred Cordes offered to sell any woman all her rights in Fred Cordes for $1,500. Inducements: he had been a good husband for 17 years, was Manhattan's "best tutti-frutti ice cream maker," now unemployed.

Inventor

In Chicago, police solved the ingenious suicide of Miles Kramer, 38, unsuccessful inventor, when they discovered his last and most effective invention, a short length of lead pipe which was fixed over a gas stove flame which exploded a .38...

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