Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1943

The Current Scene. In San Francisco, Mrs. Lucille Riquard testified that her husband had punctured 55 cans of her rationed fruit and vegetables. She won a divorce. In Chicago, Mrs. Nellie Vileta, freshly divorced, told the judge that her husband had swiped her false teeth and used all the meat coupons for himself. She got the teeth as alimony. In Kansas City, Walter Solt, who had had trouble with the maid service at his hotel, was fined $1 for taking his jampacked wastebasket down to the lobby and dumping it out on the clerk's...

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