Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1937

Frozen

From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn jug."

Stunt

In snowless Miami Beach, Fla., Pressagent Steve Hannagan hired a local Santa Claus, sent him to sea on an aquaplane.

Self-Defense

In Equality, Ill., when Robert Micas, a deaf-mute door-to-door magazine salesman, knocked at the home of Mrs. Lucille Shaghuey, she picked up a shotgun,...

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