INDIA: $10,000 for Sleep

Not having slept for two years, Calcutta's insomniac rich merchant Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, 65, advertised extensively that to anyone who can restore him to normal sleeping powers he would pay $10,000.

By last week this luckless Hindu found himself inundated in Calcutta by an avalanche of suggested cures, but his offer was still open. Further suggestions may be addressed in care of Calcutta's great native newsorgan The Star Of India.

"I am unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States...

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