Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1956

Lift That Bale. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Margaret Dudley won a divorce after testifying that her husband charged her 50¢ a day for driving her to the fields where they worked picking cotton.

Retirement Age. In Toronto, after he fined her $100, a magistrate advised 75-year-old grandmother Mrs. Alice Berthauane: "It's time you were getting out of the bootlegging business."

Call of the Boiled. In Redding, Calif., police arrested William Sisk on a charge of drunkenness after they found him trying to make a phone call from a fire hydrant, complaining that he couldn't get the operator.

A Woman's Place. In Houston, after ordering...

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