Miscellany: Bonitatibus

In Camden, N. J., Watchman John Bonitatibus came home to find a new billboard on the lot which his five children used as a playground. Irate John Bonitatibus smashed the billboard with an ax, hung U. S. flags on the wreckage, posted a placard: COMMISSIONERS— WE WANT A CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND HERE, NOT BILLBOARDS. Next day, armed with a petition signed by the parents of 200 neighboring moppets, John Bonitatibus marched to City Hall, got the billboard removed.

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In Lincoln, Neb., Henry Peter Reider, 37, chief preparator of the University of Nebraska's...

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