Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1942

Debtor. In Paducah, Ky., a robin to whom E. N. Smith had fed crumbs every day turned up at the back door with a dollar bill in its beak, dropped it on the porch, flew off.

Wedlock. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Frank Nowels, married ten days, won a divorce when she testified that her husband had played basketball on Friday, golf on Saturday, baseball on Sunday, poker the rest of the week. In Manhattan, Mrs. Gesine Heitmann, who won a temporary separation from husband Charles in 1905, asked a court to make the separation permanent.

Invitation. In Bethlehem, Pa., a child returned a...

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