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In Omaha, Neb. a sign painter named Oscar ("Wiggie") Wiggenjost, whose wife Helen had flounced out of the house with the haughties, hired Skywriter Joe Jacobson to try to get her back. Across seven miles of sky, in letters half a mile high, Airman Jacobson skywrote: "Wiggie loves Helen." The unfeeling wind smudged the message into illegibility, and Wife Helen kept mum.

Lockout

In Princetown, England, home of famed Dartmoor Prison, villagers watched open-mouthed while a uniformed convict shambled sheepishly through the town, knocked at the prison gates, shouted: "I've been locked out."

Proof

In Miami, Fla. a Negress claimed a $6.75 check payable to her late husband. Asked to prove that he was dead, she answered: "I shot him and I've got papers here to prove it." Her papers did. She got the check.

Auction

In Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special--a law graduate with $10,000").

Beard

In Nashville, Tenn. 81-year-old Farmer C. C. Neely sued three youths for snipping off three feet of his beard. The court awarded Farmer Neely damages at the rate of $33.33 a foot.

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