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Object All Sublime. In Ionia, Mich., after he pleaded guilty to bombarding a minister and his congregation with peaches and tomatoes, Roger Link was sentenced to attend the pastor's Sunday services for the next 13 Sundays...
Mouth Piece. In Ionia, Mich., when Bank Clerk Celia Kennedy asked a traveling man for identification when he presented a check at the Ionia National Bank, he whipped out his upper plate, pointed to his name engraved on its top, pocketed his cash...
...that he had talked to more than 50 convicts who said they were innocent, but that not a one had ever convinced him. The warden agreed, but added: "There's one man in prison who has convinced me he's innocent. He's Willie Galloway, at Ionia [prison] doing life for a holdup...
...redheaded young movie starlet named Joan Taylor (Queen of the Dairy Association) draped around her neck, and a national broadcasting company microphone recording the milking machine's gurgle, Hazel became the new champion milk cow of the world. She passed the record of 267,304 lbs. set by Ionia Ormsby Queen on Aug. 22, 1947. Hazel's lifetime production is worth more than $29,000, would fill nine tank trucks and run Whittier's dairy plant for 32 days...
Lesson. In Ionia, Mich., a thief Willis Clark had chased out of his garage returned a couple of hours later with a pistol, robbed Clark of $200, remarked virtuously: "That will teach you to treat people better...