Miscellany: Jan. 13, 1930

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Prize

In Mexico City a young cartoonist won a cash prize for an anti-alcohol poster, got drunk, landed in jail.

Teachers

In Cleveland two school teachers won a live turkey in a Christmas raffle. Unable to cut its head off, they dosed the bird with chloroform, put it in a box, plucked it. When nearly naked the bird awoke, flopped grotesquely on the floor. The teachers screamed, police arrived, decapitated the turkey.

Nuggets

In Rossport, Ont, Mrs. C. Gerow, cleaning a turkey, found two gold nuggets in its craw.

Drive

In Chicopee, Mass., one Eugene...

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