Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-04-07
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Mt. HOLLY, N. Sniff, sniff.
Troopers Armand and Erwin did
just that as a truck passed them
on the highway. What they shifted
prompted a peek. A still, first
portable outfit of its kind on rec
ord, was bubbling merrily inside
the truck. Three Philadelphians
accompanying the machine shifted
also when brought into court. But
it was a different kind of a sniff
more like a sniffle.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Deputy Joe
Law had a bright idea. He would
fool bandits by concealing in a
loaf of bread the $4,000 of county
funds he had to take to the bank.
Heavily escorted, he lugged the
loaf to the cashiers cage, cere-
moniously whacked the parcel open,
then nearly collapsed. He had
brought the wrong loaf.
BOSTON-Police Sergeant John
p. M. Wolfe was bitten by a
drunken man. a dog and a cat.
Each time he recovered. Then he
bit his tongue and died of septic
poisoning. SO Mayor James M. Cur
ley granted his widow an annuity.
DONDON-For sale, Paradise"
that's the way Brecqhou, one Of the
smaller channel islands, is being
advertised. Ut is a kingdom of it.
self and, as the ad says, "a gem set
in an sea-"
DETROIT-When a dog whose
ownership is disputed doesn't leap
joyfully to his owner in court,
that's news. A super-friendly mutt
threw Judge Sweeney's judicial
process out of kilter by responding
affectionately to various people
who called him Rex, Teddy and
Rover. Judge Sweeney gave up.
OKLAHOMA CITY,. r. Spen-
Ger, farm expert, ear think of bet
ter uses for moonlight. A woman
telephoned him she wanted to
plant her garden when the moon
is right" '"That moon stuff is all
the bunk" he said. "Last year /
planted half a field in the light,
and half in the dark of the moon.
/ got the same yield from both.
Moonlight was made for other
things than gardening"
GREENSBURG, Pa.-The old
melodramatic thriller with two men
battling on a precipice brink was
re-enacted here in dead earnest.
John Vacko and Nellie Blanish,
high school boys, fought with their
fists, atop a 35-foot slate dump,
police were told. Vacko toppled
over to his death.
AUGUSTA, Ga. Councilman
Scott Nixon, who likes psychology
experiments, broke all traffic laws
for three months. No one arrested
him. He blames the political system
not the cops. "They need their
jobs" he says.
CHICAGO-Thomas Delmato is
retiring from this hurly-burly world
to catch up on his reading. Del
mato, with five books by Victor
Hugo under his arm, was nabbed
for larceny. The Judge sentenced
him to stay in Jail until he reads
all five.
OKLAHOMA CITY Barber
Charles III. Briggs, who carved a
nick in a governors chin, now
seeks to carve a niche in the hall of
fame as a legislator. He lost his
barber concession at the state house
after he made Gov. w. H. Murray
say "ouch." Now he's running
for the legislature.
ALBANY-Whether Peter Stuy-
vesant's stump was a right stump
or a left stump is a question that
stumps DIR. Alexander G. Flick,
state historian. so in Dutch Cura-
Goa, where the severed leg of the
governor of early Dutch New York
is buried, they're planning to dig
it up to find out.
CHICAGO-It is a nice way to
prosperity that C. B. Denman of
the farm board suggests. He says
let every American take an extra
bite of meat at each meal. Result:
More demand for livestock, more
demand for farm products, more
money for farmers to buy more
things.
GREENVILLE, Pa.-One Of Mrs.
Hattie Fry's Plymouth Rocks has
just laid an egg that measures six
and one-half inches in circumfer-
ence and eight inches lengthwise.
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NORWICH, N. Y.-Mrs. Fry's
Plymouth Rock had no more than