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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (P) – Mrs. Ola Bragg Minter’s automobile sideswiped another car Sunday. Police said Mrs. Minter continued up the street without stopping. A mile away she failed to make a curve and the car turned sideways, ripping up a street sign and 20-foot iron advertising sign. Righting itself, the automobile rolled through a service…
Albany, Dec. 1, AP Mrs. Ed Scofield credited a Chesapeake retriever dog today with saving the life of her 17-month-old son Larry. She said the dog, owned by the family, came to her in the yard and led her to a neighbor’s fish pond. There Larry, soaking wet, was lying beside the pool. Teeth marks…
WACO, Texas (AP) – Mrs. Burgman Black, intent on a fine spring garden, purchased a sack of commercial fertilizer and stored in the garage. At the first opportunity she carefully mixed what she thought was the fertilizer with soil in her garden, did her planting, and then gave it all a good soaking. The next…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Oct. 9 (AP) — A little girl walked into the Sioux Falls post office to mail a package. M. T. Stark was on duty at the parcel post counter. “Would you please wrap this for me?” the little girl asked. Stark smiled and proceeded to wrap the package. Completing the job, he…
ASHLAND, O. (AP)-From inside lock trunk of a parked car the cries of “lemme out!” attract-a passerby who called police. Expecting to free a small, curious boy, the cops Monday night broke the lock to release a not-so-small and curious wife who said she had hidden there to check up her husband. Police Chief Harvey…
JOHN DAY, Ore. (P) – Two towns lost electrical power and a house caught on fire because a dog chased a cat Monday. The chasing took place on the Clark Morris Ranch, three miles west of John Day. The cat ran up a power pole, and then: A power line swung against the Morris telephone…
GASTONIA, N.C., Feb. 18 (AP) – Sheriff’s officers arrested a 35-year-old plumber here on whisky charges this weekend after they found in his home a kitchen spigot that would mix its own drinks. Officers said an ordinary 42-gallon water tank outside the kitchen contained moonshine whisky. A pipe led under the kitchen sink to a…
This is the story of the last person on earth, as told by a trash pile left on Henderson Island. Of course it’s a story from ancient history, so you and I know he wasn’t actually the last person, but he didn’t know that. He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he…
Day and night for more than 72 hours a beautiful black and white shepherd dog has kept vigil at a white post on the Pacific highway eight miles south of Salem near the Alder Springs club, Roy McIntire, who lives nearby, said Wednesday. Evidently waiting for her owner, she eats the meals McIntire feeds her…
ATLANTA, May 10-(P)-A little girl named Flowers went toddling among the flowers going sniff, sniff, sniff. And when Mary Beth Flowers came to the roses, she took a great, big sniff, just about the biggest sniff that could be sniffed. The little Miss Flowers, age 18 months, started crying and ran into the house. Her…