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A sign posted near Fairdale, Ore., cautioning sportsmen: "WARNING To HUNTERS — DONT Shoot until U see IT MOVE — it might be a W. P. A. worker." Coincidence In Detroit, year ago, Street Sweeper Joseph Figlock was furbishing up an alley when a baby plopped down from a fourth-story window, struck him on the head and shoulders, injured Joseph Figlock and itself but was not killed. Last fortnight, as Joseph Figlock was sweeping out another alley, two-year-old David Thomas fell from a fourth-story window, landed on ubiquitous Mr. Figlock with the same results.
Courtesy Repaid Long a familiar figure at Manhattan's Roxy Theatre was tattered old Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot. Whenever a new picture was being shown she went to the first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show.
When the Roxy was temporarily closed in 1932, Mrs. Elliot transferred her allegiance to the Radio City Music Hall. There, a $45-a-week ballet dancer, Mrs. Rosalie Spatcher Kniskern, made a habit of sitting down for a chat with the old lady when she was not needed on the stage.
Once she took Mrs. Elliot home to tea.
Fortnight ago, lonely, 70-year-old Mrs. Elliot died. When her will was filed for probate last week, it revealed that she had left a fortune of approximately $1,000,000, naming as chief beneficiaries William Reilly and Mrs. Kniskern. Reason: they "contributed a great deal to my happiness by their kindly and courteous acts. Neither ever expected anything from me for their many courtesies." Informed of her good fortune, pretty Mrs. Kniskern was too dazed to speak. Said William Reilly, now a $52-a-month hospital attendant whose luck has grown steadily worse: "Now that I'm a capitalist, I hope this Hitler drops dead." Reward In Cincinnati, the Traffic Safety Council decided to reward motorists who perform outstanding acts of courtesy and consideration. The reward (to be given each week to the city's most courteous motorists) : an orchid.
Sisters, Brothers, Sons In Idaho Falls, Idaho, Mrs. Melvin Hintze and Mrs. Shirley Hintze, sisters who six years ago married brothers in a double wedding, were brought to bed of sons within 25 minutes of each other.