Monday, May. 13, 1929
Twins
In Los Angeles, Calif., twin sisters married twin brothers at a twin wedding two months ago. Twin Wives Louise and Lucy Young last week filed twin divorce suits in Los Angeles' Superior Court against Twin Husbands W. Byrl and Alvin Earl Young. Twin charges: the twin husbands' parents had told the twin wives they were only twin boarders.
Mind
In the Bronx, N. Y., one Morris Goldstein, out-of-work, despondent, slashed his throat, began dictating his will to a policeman, changed his mind halfway through, offered $1,000 for a blood transfusion to save his life, was reported improving.
Tickets
In Boston, one Vincent Featherstone has sold more than one million tickets in his 39 years in the box office of the Hollis Theatre. Last week he took one of the tickets, went inside, saw The Beggar's Opera, first play he had attended, he said, in 39 years.
Hickory Flats
In Hickory Flats, Miss., the board of aldermen has passed ordinances making swearwords in public a misdemeanor, whiskey on breath a felony.
Chocolates
In Rochester, N. Y., one William Collins, 4, ate 90 chocolate-coated laxative pills, died in convulsions.