Miscellany, Aug. 2, 1943

Jumbleland. In Washington, the Department of Commerce announced that "the use of automobiles in all of Mexico is now restricted to six days each week, Saturdays and Sundays excepted."

The Animal Kingdom. In San Francisco, Lief Croch tried to rid his apartment of mice by setting out crackers, spreading poison on every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself....

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