Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1943

Notions. In El Paso, Francisco Vega got 60 days in jail as a smuggler of bobby pins. In Tulare, Calif., Aubrey I. Morris, whose truck hit a tree, got busy picking up 15 tons of buttons.

Solid Proposition. In Sedro-Woolley, Wash., J. E. Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE—George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with him. ....

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