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Service Entrance. In Batavia, Ohio, Eva M. Eicher visited the county jail to bring her husband a change of clothes, remained as a resident when deputies noticed her shopping bag seemed fuller on her way out, searched and found two of the jail's sheets and six towels...
...Menace. In Batavia, Ill., Nellie Reynolds tumbled down a flight of stairs during a baby-sitting session, collected $146 damages from her employers after she discovered that her four-year-old charge had extracted the tacks from a section of stair carpeting...
...asked the aborigines about it, was answered with the word "Kanguroo" and never learned that the word meant "I don't understand you." After the near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, the Endeavour was badly in need of a drydock, and Cook put in at Jakarta (then Batavia). The two-month stay salvaged the ship but wrecked the crew. Seven men died of malaria and dysentery in the fetid port, another two dozen on shipboard as the Endeavour limped her solitary way around South Africa, back to the Thames and into the history books...
Almost everywhere the old Roosevelt magic worked; in Batavia, with 1,767 registered Democrats, 424 bought tickets to hear a dinner speech and hundreds more were turned away. By last week he had picked up 200 upstate delegates; he expected to have the full majority of 510 (out of 1,018) by the Sept. 21 nominating convention...
Tight Budget. In Milwaukee, when police arrested Anton Lagozny for drunkenness and asked how he had accumulated a bank balance of more than $12,000 on a $50-a-week salary, he replied: "I live frugally, spending money only for meat, beer and whisky." Bare Essentials. In Batavia, Ohio, after jurors in a murder trial protested to Judge Harry Britton that his "no newspapers" ban was putting them hopelessly behind in their comic strips, the court instructed bailiffs to clip out the funnies and distribute them daily...