Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1947

Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years ago.

The Company He Keeps. In Seattle, Patrolman John H. Davis was assigned to the waterfront to round up sleeping vagrants on the docks, was eventually rounded up himself and suspended for 30 days, for sleeping on the docks while on duty.

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