Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-10-19
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nurse, saved for a home. Finally
she could buy a lot. Recently she
achieved her ambition and built a
pretty $1,000 bungalow. Yesterday
V. Naufmoff went to look at his
lot. He was amazed to find a
house on it. 1t was Miss Mitchell's.
She had built on the wrong lot.
Attorneys believe they can ex-
change lots but it will cost Miss
Mitchell 500 in fees wdich she
had planned in spending for fur
niture.
Louisville, KY. - Regulations
prohibit police from riding to
work in private automobiles; but
when Chief Radcliffe checked up
on m~otorcars parked in restricted
areas near district police stations
he found IA of the 30 carr were
owned by policemen. He ordered
81 fines for each, and gave them
q good talking to besides.
Skulany, Rumania-Two broth
ers, IL and Is, quarreled while
their parents were away at a
wedding. The elder struck his
brother with a hammer, killing
him. Their sister rushing in too
late to prevent the attack, went
mad. The parents returned and
the mother, seeing what had tax
en- place, committed suicide. The
boy who had swung the hammer,
fled. Later, in a nearby lake,
they found his body.
Evanston, Iii. - There were
squeals in John Manning's ancient
automobile when he drove home
from Rhinelander, Wis, so he
took it to F. L. Larsen, who fixes
cars for a living. Larsen put his
hand in a hole in the top, but
took it out suddenly, having been
bitten by n of two squirrels
found inside. They escaped. Cached
in the car Larsen found eight
pounds of nuts. Manning had left
his car standing idle all summer.
Budapest - Said Alex Gatari,
BARRIERS helper: "Tll wager two
kegs of beer / can eat 80 canta-
loupes at a sitting A friend took
the bet. Gatari set to eating.
When 27 cantaloupes had been de-
voured he admitted his limit had
been reached. The crowd which
had gathered paid for the beer
and gave Alex a drink in appreci-
alton of his gastronomic enter
prise.
Camden, N. stopping the
50-year-old city hall clock proved
to be an untimely municipal econ
omy measure. No sooner had time
stood still by order of city cocncil
than a storm of protests began to
pour in from Camden citizens. AL
though they are uncertain where
they are going to get the $50 an
nual cost of making the wheels go
round, city officials ordered the
clock restarted yesterday.
Cincinnati-The days when liq-
uor sometimes substituted for cur
rency were recalled today with the
finding of an old bill of sale. 1t
revealed that Andrew S. Farrar
sold a r lot in downtown Gin
cinnati to James and David Heus-
ton for 10000 gallons of whisky.
That was in 1912. Five years ago
the same property sold for $780,
900.
Chicago-Such a fuss the busy
brokers made about six birds APP
parently trapped in a well formed
bv the four inside walls of a tow
ering scraper in the financial dis
trict. They dropped tape to feed
them breadcrumbs. The humane
society protested someone should
catch and free the birds, but they
flew too fast. This had been go
ing on for days, until yesterday
when two of them flew over the
top and away.
"They're just racketeers getting
free feed" said the building sup
S~-intendent.
Monroe, Mich.-They are still
waiting for Fred Mueller, 20, OF
Detroit, to join the dinner which
was planned to celebrate his mar
riage to Miss Anna Anderson, 70.
Mueller went downtown ito see
about the wedding photographs"
The next his bride-to-be heard
from him was a letter post-marked
Toledo, Ohio, saying he planned to
"end it all"
Peiping-Liu Yu-Ch'in feels he
is too big a man to be gatekeeper
at the geological gardens. He is
eight feet tall. And 1t hurts his
back to bend down to collect tick
cts from understood Chinese. He
plans to retire. Liu made what
in China was a neat fortune by
appearing in American movie
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