Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1939

Cat

In Evanston, Ill., President Robert Donohoe of the Young Business Men's Club advertised for a "large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats." Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: "It's for the jail." A cat named Sergeant Tom got the job.

Foretold

In Newark, N. J., Sidney A. Fortel, 36, linen-supply dealer who makes a specialty Mr. Sidney A. Fortel wishes to announce that on the seventeenth or eighteenth of June a Son will be...

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