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  2. BITS[?] OF LIFE

    WEIRD noises amongst the tombstones late at night, and the [?]itting figure of a little old woman dressed in black and carrying an umbrella, have ...

    Article : 412 words
  3. COULDN'T GET INTO GAOL.

    THE adventures of a man looking for a gaol to go to were related in legal circles at the Law Courts in Melbourne recently. ...

    Article : 248 words
  4. TORTURED BY BANDIT.

    DETECTIVES are continuing their search for a bandit who entered the home of Andrew Smi[?]hula, of Denver (U.S.A.), and branded Mrs. Smihula ...

    Article : 166 words
  5. AGED BRIDEGROOM'S TROUBLE.

    A Man of 76. who declared that he was dragged into marriage, then deserted the same day by his bride, appeared before the Marylebone (London) ...

    Article : 321 words
  6. BACK TO FRONT ILLNESS.

    COMPLAINT: Mancinism. These are the words written on the chart affixed to the cot of a small patient in the Paddington Green Children's ...

    Article : 138 words
  7. A GOLDEN WEDDING RAGE.

    A 70-YEAR-OLD son of the soil[?] at Smyrna, Salih Baba, has just celebrated the fift[?]eth anniversary of his marriage with 90-year-old Aic[?]he ...

    Article : 86 words
  8. HIS ONE GOOD POINT.

    DECIDING that as a husband, her spouse is a good lawyer, Mrs. Sarah Marriott Foreman, of Tulsa, Ok[?]lahoma, U.S.A.[?] employed him as her attorney to ...

    Article : 53 words
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    THE BEAUTY DOCTOR[?]: A beauty [?] for London's old buildings is man[?]aged at Isl[?]in [?]gton by Mr. G. A. [?]Dreyfus. The ravages of time and weather on ancient stonework are invisibly repaired with crushed stone mixed a[?]nd moulded to match the original. Here Mr. Dreyfus is fitting a new s[?]ceptre to a statue at the old St. Thomas's Hospital. Daily Mirror, photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  10. THEIR GIFT OF SKIN.

    FOUR children of San Rafael. U.S.A., came forward recently and offered of their bodies that a friendless labourer, whom they had never seen, might live. ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. A LETTER IN BLOOD.

    CONFESSING to police that he had written an unintelligible letter to Father Piperno, of Saints Peter and Paul Church, and that he "just felt ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. A FAITHFUL FRIEND.

    HENRY LINDNER. 68, San Rafael, U.S.A., will no more tramp Mari[?] trails with his faithful dog. Lindner died on the deck of a Sausalito ferry. ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. BOY KILLS BABY SISTER.

    SITTING round the dinner [?]table, the Evans[?] family[?] at Bat[?]eman's Bay, N.S.W.[?] were laughing and joking. A friend who had been out shooting ...

    Article : 129 words
  14. THE FATAL SCARF.

    ISADORA DUNCAN, American dancer, was killed in an automobile accident at Nice (France). She was trying out a new automobile on the Promenade des ...

    Article : 197 words
  15. KEEPING HIS JOB.

    HOW Ward C. Vilas, young nephew of Royal C. Vilas, a Chicago (U.S.A.) capitalist[?] was visiting the races and dashing about over the country in his ...

    Article : 234 words
  16. BLOWN FROM BED TO ROOF[?]TOP.

    SHATTERING windows for blocks around, a blast which occurred at a house at Tijuana, Mexico, blew Joaquin Solorzano and another inmate of the ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. THE DEATH DREAM.

    MRS. LOUISA TISH, of Russia-lane, Bethnal Green, England, twice dreamed that her husband had been brought home dead on a stretcher. She ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. DIED AT WRONG PLACE.

    A 65-YEAR-OLD New Orleans (U.S.A.) woman planned to die on the grave of her sister, but circumstances over which she had no control resulted ...

    Article : 110 words
  19. TOO FAT FOR GAOL.

    WASHINGTON police were baffled recently in an attempt to incarcerate a prisoner. The arrested man. Alvin Ogle, weighing 516 pounds and charged with ...

    Article : 77 words
  20. DARBY AND JOAN.

    IF you want to find the youngest octogenarians in all Herts you must go to the typical little English village of Hunton Bridge for there live Mr. and ...

    Article : 170 words
  21. DISCRIMINATION.

    A BOTTLE of whisky, a bottle of port. a syphon of soda water, a leg of lamb, and some apples were consumed by burglars, of whom one is thought to ...

    Article : 73 words
  22. BLIND MAN REFUSES FORTUNE.

    TO John McConnell, blind man, I do will and bequeath my entire estate, real and personal, he having once befriended me," reads the will of Lyonella ...

    Article : 131 words
  23. SHOT HIMSELF IN SHAME.

    AFTER his wife had made a frantic, but futile, effort to wrest the revolver from his hand, Edward Sloan, a night watchman, of Wollongong, New ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. THAT TIRED FEELING.

    TWO Chicago scientists, using a toy balloon and a stomach pump, have learned to their satisfaction why objects blur and one feels drowsy after eating. ...

    Article : 101 words
  25. THE DEATH FAST.

    MR. G. H. KELLENBERGER, 67, dentist, died in Colorado, U.S.A., recently after keeping a fast of 40 consecutive days. The dentist decided to stop ...

    Article : 42 words
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