Lean
In Slater, Mo., Santa Claus. 45, farmer-minister, father of eight, had a lean Christmas, answered all his mail.
Undelivered
In Manhattan, the Central Postoffice inquiry section received nearly 10,000 letters for Santa Claus. Addresses: The North Pole Region; Artie Oshun; Sky Heavens; Top of the Earth; Chimney Top Street; No. 1 Main Street, North Pole; Alaska; Freezing Lake, N. P.; The Happy Land Where There Is No Depression; Over the Hills & Far Away; Santa Ground.
In Minneapolis, Christ Nelson took six silver dollars, pasted a stamp on one side of each, an address on the other side, mailed them to his six grandchildren in Detroit and New York City. All were delivered.
Sin
In Brooklyn, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Mulholland tuned in their radio on a rescue mission hour. Into the room came the words, "I will now introduce 'Spider' Tillman and he will tell you of his experience in this world of sin." While Frederick ("Spider") Tillman told how Christianity had redeemed him from a life of sin, Mrs. Mulholland went white & whiter, John Mulholland went red & redder. Spider Tillman was the first husband whom Mrs. Mulholland had claimed to be dead. John Mulholland called on him at the rescue mission, then sued for annulment of his own marriage to Mrs. Mulholland.
Bath
In Louisville, Ky., Grace Vinning, 9, basked in her bath while her nephew Junior Carter, 6, played with an electric lamp on an extension cord. To see the reflection of the pretty light on the water he held it over Grace Vinning's bath, dipped it up to the socket, electrocuted his Aunt Grace.
Petit
In Manhattan. William J. Clare, 51, was arrested on a charge of petit larceny for stealing baby carriages.
Conversion
In Washington, the Prohibition Bureau gave 100 Ib. of lead pipe confiscated from illicit distilleries to be cast into toy soldiers for poor children.
Rotten
In Sandusky, Ohio, inmates of the Ohio Soldiers' & Sailors' Home give local bootleggers, prostitutes & gamblers rushing business twice a month when the pension checks arrive. When five inmates were taken to the Home's infirmary poisoned by liquor at 25-c- the quart. State Senator Joseph N. Ackerman asked Ohio's Governor George White to place the area surrounding the Home under martial law to correct "rotten" conditions.
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