Miscellany: Farm

In Manhattan, Mrs. Joe Benedetto was not sorry to learn that the city block at 213th St. and Broadway which she leases and runs as a truck farm with her husband and nine children will be sold, thereby putting an end to the last farm on the island. Said she: "Things have not been very good for the farmer this year."

Arm

In Salinas, Calif., Alta Fickle, 20, obsessed with the idea that her right arm would kill someone, lay down on a railroad track, waited until a train came by and amputated the arm....

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