Business & Finance: Puzzle Profits

¶In Toronto last week one Fred Shipley did a jigsaw puzzle while his apartment burned. Forcibly ejected by firemen. Puzzler Shipley finished his puzzle under a blanket on the sidewalk.

¶In Chicago the Century of Progress (World's Fair) was about to issue an official jigsaw puzzle, picturing a panorama of the fair grounds, for 25¢.

¶In Manhattan speakeasy patrons worked feverishly over pictures showing cinemactresses in circumstantial bedroom scenes.

¶Eddie Cantor sat up nights writing a jigsaw song.

¶And a Mr. Morris M. Einson of Long Island City, L. I., went vacationing in the West Indies,...

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