Miscellany, Dec. 14, 1953

Forewarned, Forearmed. In Oklahoma City, after hiring an ambulance with two attendants. Attorney Charles Ham Jr. rode in it to his ex-wife's home, angrily told her gentleman friend, "One of us is going to ride to the hospital," after a short fist fight was carried to the ambulance and driven to the hospital.

Thanatopsis. In Waverly, Iowa, the H. H. Cleveland Funeral Service advertised: THOSE WE HAVE SERVED WILL TESTIFY AS TO OUR ABILITY.

Applied Science. In Greenmeadows, New Zealand, a 13-year-old schoolboy was nabbed by police after he spotted a fireworks display in a shopwindow, focused the sun's rays through a...

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