Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1942

Writer. In Columbus, Ohio, a visitor to a telegraph office wrote a message, threw it away, wrote another, threw it away, wrote a third, handed it to a clerk. The third: "All your cash and be quiet." The first and second, found after the stickup: "Be calm. This is a stickup"; "Holdup, All your cash."

Finds. Near Moneta, Wyo., a hunter found an unopened letter in a clump of sagebrush. It was addressed to his mother-in-law, postmarked May 12, 1939. In Hobart, Mich., Ray Loomis found a set of false teeth in his potato patch, returned them to a neighbor who had...

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