Monday, Mar. 09, 1936
"TIME brings all things."
Danger
In Tulsa, Okla., riding with a case of dynamite, Lee Smith saw that his car was about to crash into another, hugged the dynamite to his chest, prevented an explosion and was jailed for reckless driving.
Eugenics
In Kansas City, American Butter Co.'s President L. H. Smith astonished his friends by cracking open a normal-looking egg out of which fell a hollow cork out of which Mr. Smith took a note written to himself. To prepare the trick, Robert E. Phillips Jr., postgraduate student of poultry husbandry at Kansas State College, had busied himself anesthetizing hens, inserting in their egg ducts hollow corks containing notes to Mr. Smith. Finally a hen laid an egg with a cork.
Cruelty
In San Francisco, six months after celebrating her golden wedding anniversary, Mrs. Benjamin F. Skelly sued her husband for divorce on the grounds that he had pinched her at a funeral to cut short her lamentations.
Romance
In Manhattan, Leonard J. Winston, 26, $30-a-week real estate and insurance salesman, met and wooed Elinor Samuels last September. Winston convinced the girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then he brought her home to his Manhattan flat and showed her the gas range. In one month of home life she used 24-c- worth of gas. Last week he sued for a separation. Ruled Justice McGeehan: "Unless she goes back to her husband and does the work which is concomitant to an income of not over $35 a week, she has no defense."
Pedigree
In St. Clairsville, Ohio, Alexander Hamilton Brandon, 75, was awarded an old age pension after officials had verified the facts that his grandfather was with George Washington at Valley Forge, his grandmother was an Indian, nine of his brothers fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, eight for the Union.
Killing
In Milwaukee, a round of draw poker ended with four players showing respectively a straight, a diamond flush, a full house of aces over jacks and four kings. The lone kibitzer, Joseph J. Petran, 55. fell dead.
Village
In Tamworth, N. H., officials reported that all six of Tamworth's inhabitants are over 90, all employed.
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