Monday, Dec. 12, 1932
"TIME brings all things."
Father
In Prescott. Ariz.. Thomas Taylor. 67, retired superintendent of United Verde Copper Co., before committing suicide wrote a will leaving $150,000 to his wife & son, and $10,000 to his daughter Lillian Taylor Briggs "to go to hell on.''
Daughters
In Washington, Santiago Iglesias has been elected Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U. S. Congress. He has eight daughters named Liberty, America, Justice, Fraternity, Equality, Peace, Light and Victory Iglesias.
Conviction
In Peabody, Mass., dug out from under a collapsed floor with a broken collarbone. Edward McCrossin. 48, was offered a drink of whiskey. Spat he: "Sir. I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive."
Purgatory
In Braintree, Mass., beaten down by immemorial jokes, citizens changed the name of the road that divides Braintree from West Quincy from Purgatory Road to Wood Road.
Oath
In Upper Marlboro. Md., on trial for bootlegging, Frank Bassford was asked to raise his right hand as he took oath. Said he: "I'll not only raise my right hand and swear I'm innocent, but I'll lift both hands, stand on my head and raise my feet." Charge dismissed.
End
In Oakland. Calif., Mrs. George Reid was given a divorce because her husband regularly ended arguments by shutting her up in a folding bed.
Meeting
Near Walla Walla, Wash., one A. Snyder, Northern Pacific Railway Co. engineer, last fortnight saw a mule dead ahead between the tracks, ears laid back, eyes wide, legs braced. The brakes squealed, the mule stiffened, was catapulted off the track against a switch. The witch broke, the train ran off the rails, wrecking two cars. The mule trotted off ate grass.
Decimal
In West Chester. Pa., a decimal point prevents distribution of the $570,000 estate of Robert LeBoutillier who left to each of two children in his will "$1.0,000."
Spoons
In Norfolk, England, lives an old woman with 20 spoons. The handles of twisted silver, ten small spoons are made of the fingernails of her late husband, ten large spoons of his toenails.
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