Monday, Dec. 23, 1929
"TIME brings all things."
Will
In Milwaukee one Wellington Lytle, suicide, willed that ''my body should go to science, my soul to Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors."
Wig
In St. Louis one Sam Lehrer was held up by a Negro thug who, finding no money, clipped off a seven-inch length from Lehrer's beard, departed saying: "I shall sell this for a wig."
Schwartz
In Chicago Schuyler C. Schwartz's second wife objected to the same thing his first had disliked: he had an automobile for each of his 13 mistresses.
Grenade
In Brooklyn a policeman at his post was confronted by a small boy who handed him a loaded hand-grenade and vanished.
Meteor
In Zvezvan, Jugoslavia, a wedding party was proceeding to the church when a white-hot meteor 16 inches in diameter hurtled into a carriage in front of the bride's, killed one guest, injured another. The bride fainted, came to, went on with the ceremony.
Bomb
In Chicago one Charles Piazza, barber, returning from the hospital where his wife had just borne a boy, found that Chicago's 105th bomb in 1929 had exploded in his house.
Electragist
In Attica, N. Y., F. W. Robbins advertises that he is a Radiotrician, Electragist and Refrigerationer.
Joke
In Los Angeles one Gregory Woodford sat with his friend J. A. Pursley in a seventh story hotel window, telling a joke. At the climax Woodford gave Pursley a thrust in the ribs. Both rollicked with laughter, fell out of the window, were killed.
Change
In Fall River, Mass., one Mary Lovering Swasey, 20, returned from the House-in-the-Pines girls' boarding school and declared :
"I'm a man. I shall be 21 soon and I want to live like a man."
Parents and the family physician investigated, found the statement true, changed Mary's name to David, let him get his hair cut, sent cards to friends announcing the change.
Mystery
On the Isle of lona, Hebrides, the dead body of Miss Emily Farnario, 30, English mental-telepathist, daughter of an Italian surgeon, was found nude, reclining on a great cross that had been cut in 'the turf.
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