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...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
...Charlottesville, Va., Alex Holliday, six and black, left in charge of a neighbor's baby, put the baby in a stove because it cried for its mother, hid under bedcovers as the baby burned to death...
Fellow inmates, judges, lawyers, officials of the institution and a jollier brother, Capt. Eugene Nutter, 75, who had come from Gouldsboro, Me., asked them to make friends. Instead, Capt. Fred Nutter scowled sadly at his brother in the court; Capt. Edgar Nutter hid his face with his hat. A patient magistrate dismissed the case. Capt. Fred Nutter strolled out the front door. Capt. Edgar Nutter, too proud to follow him, went out the side...
...Turk or an American Mormon being in the house." Highest spot of the summer's adventures was when he was almost caught after lights telling ghost-stories to eight of his bevy in one of their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately followed by an almost hysterical outburst on the part of the eight girls." Everything...
...Leland Stanford team for its game with Dartmouth, in the Stadium, recently contributed to Collier's an article in which he tells some of his experiences with the Indian players. Naturally he pays attention to the trick Carlisle worked on Harvard in 1903, when Dillon, one of the Indians, hid the ball under the back of his jersey, and made a touchdown from the kickoff because the Harvard players could not tell where the ball...