Miscellany, Sep. 22, 1947

Occupational Hazard. In Mexico City, Cobbler Inocencio Rosa Cortes took one despairing look at an impossibly battered pair of shoes, screamed, stabbed himself ten times.

Tribute. In Canberra, Australia, the Post Office happily produced a new stamp, in honor of Explorer John Shortland, unhappily discovered that the fine portrait on the stamp was of another Shortland.

Shoo! In Chicago, Mrs. John L. Bennett, whose husband manufactures flyswatters, sued for divorce, complained that he swatted her.

Your Honor! In Brunswick, Ga., for the second time in two months, conscientious cops arrested the mayor for drunken driving....

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