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In Eliza, Ill., bills have been posted announcing the public auction of the entire town, which comprises general store, drug store, barber shop, pool rooms, community building, grammar school.
Counterfeiter
In Milan, Italy, a woman tried to pay a shopkeeper with coins of suspiciously leaden color. He turned her over to the police. While she wailed, protested she was not a counterfeiter, they examined her handbag, found that a small thermometer had broken, releasing mercury which had formed amalgam on the coins.
Miller
In Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed him.