"TIME brings all things."

Ventilation

Bowling along outside of Nevada, Mo., one night last week, a "Katy" (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) air-conditioned train ran over a skunk, got skunk into its air-conditioning machinery. Passengers were inconvenienced.

Aunt v. Husband

When Marshall W. Hoyt of Natick, Mass., died, a person who said she was Mrs. Grace T. Hoyt gave the body a regulation burial and went home to wait for her slice of Hoyt's $20,000 estate. Before the will had been probated, Eugenia Wilson Wackenmuth of East Port Chester, Conn., and J. Gilbert Wilson filed a claim that the person named Marshall W. Hoyt was really their aunt, and therefore obviously not a husband and unable to leave a widow-beneficiary. Asked about the sex of the corpse, Undertaker Frederick A. Gibbs shook his head, mumbled about professional ethics. Documents were produced which showed that the Wilsons' "aunt" had applied for and obtained a marriage license in 1922, naming as the bride.a Miss Grace Louise Himebaugh. Whether Hoyt subsequently changed his mind, sex or both was but darkly indicated by the fact that the marriage license was never filed, the wedding therefore probably never performed. Last week, as Bostonians wondered whether the late Hoyt was masculine, feminine or neuter, a hearing was set for late summer in Middlesex Probate Court, Middlesex County, Mass.

Silencers

B. Palmer Davidson of Montclair, N. J., tired of traffic noises outside his house, complained to Mayor William E. Speers that he had taken to sleeping with clamshells clamped over his ears.

Teeth

In Neosho, Mo., 50-year-old Virginia Rees told Dr. C. F. Duncan, D.D.S., that she had never had a toothache in her life, that his most excruciating drill left her indifferent. Dr. Duncan took X-rays of her jaw, dropped his when he discovered that not one of her 32 teeth had a root-canal or nerve of any kind.

Insurance

When a storm broke a window of Philbert Hartshorn's hardware store in Owosso, Mich., he wrote the company from which he had bought insurance asking them to replace it. The company did nothing. He wired: REMEMBER THAT YOU ALSO CARRY OUR BURGLARY INSURANCE. Repairs were promptly made.

Trip

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Young arrived in Virginia Beach, Va., having taken two and a half months to ride from California on a tandem bicycle. They promptly started back.

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