At Evanston, Ill., Mrs. John A. McPherson stopped her automobile alongside a parked car. Patrolman Henry Miller asked her politely if she did not know it was unlawful to park double. She did not reply. He asked her, more heatedly each time as she remained silent: 1) Who she thought she was? 2) If she thought she could "get away with it because she was a woman" or "because she might have influence?" 3) If she knew what the penalty was? 4) If she would like to explain her silence to the judge? Suddenly she spoke: "I'm Mrs. John A. McPherson and I didn't know it was wrong to park double and I haven't been driving a car long enough to know the rules, and I don't think that just because I'm a woman I can get away with anything and I don't think I have any influence and I don't know what the penalty is, and I don't want to tell it to any judge and I'd have answered you the first time only my teeth were stuck together with some taffy and I couldn't and I'm sorry."
Diver
At Ft. Wayne, Ind., Mrs. Dorothy Johnson was told that her four-year-old son had fallen into a cistern. She dived in. Neighbors rescued her, took her home to find her son there safe & sound.
Telephoner
At Jamaica, N. Y., Mrs. Gustave Gunderson let a stranger telephone for a police ambulance to come for a small boy who had been killed by an automobile. When she went out into the street Mrs. Gunderson found the dead boy was her son Walter, 4.
Cats
In Madrid, Miguel Suero went around catching cats and hanging them to trees. Arrested, he told police his son was ill; he was sacrificing the cats to save his life.
Messages
In Manhattan, it became known that Senora Michaela Romero and her 21-year-old daughter have lived for five years in a West 47th Street hotel, have seen no one, received no messages or telephone calls. Their meals are left outside the door of their suite; their bills are paid from Cuba out of their large fortune. Seven years ago a son died. Five years ago they believed he had sent them messages from the spirit world. Soon the father, Jose Cainas Romero, died, promising he too would send messages. These they await.
Spirit
In Budapest, Irene Barsony inherited a— fortune, began spending it, then began worrying, fearing her father had left unpaid debts. To Olga Plepar, medium, she went, talked to the spirit of Geza Barsony, her dead father. He gave her a list of creditors, with amounts owed to each. To the creditors she went, paid out her fortune to the last pengo (18¢) though there was no proof of any loans. To Medium Plepar went the police, informed by Irene Barsony's fiance; Medium Plepar & her creditor accomplices were apprehended, returned one-third of the Barsony money.
Hermit
Near Brimfield, Mass., Clifford A. Palmer, 45, son of a well-to-do New Haven, Conn., businessman, lived in a forest retreat with 20 half-wild dogs. He was found dying of starvation, surrounded by plenty of provisions which he saved for his dogs.
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