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...Arthur was a bright young man and should have been a credit to the ministry, but he was headstrong and impulsive, and time and again mistook fanatical hunches for divine inspiration. To mortify his pride (and incidentally punish Charlotte) he married Anna, who was beautiful, but only a peasant peddler-girl. Anna was pleased as punch, and quite ready to love her handsome husband, but he wanted them to live like brother & sister. She got over that fence all right, but when she discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna...
Glum detectives scoured shops and restaurants, poked suspiciously in closets and cupboards, discovered many an old sock clinking with kopecks. Hardly ever were the hoardings large. An old woman peddler of Kiev who had amassed 800 rubles ($411) vas arrested, others were severely scolded, released. In Moscow, however, secret police arrested nine, including one Bogdanov. speculator; one Simonov, cashier; two private traders by the name of Frolov and Mashkov. Each of these amateur numismatists had assembled nearly $2.500 in coins...
...Spanish and Hon. General in the Swedish Army, Hon. Doctor of Laws (University of Philadelphia), sought last week through representatives before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to prove that he is the heir of one Antonio Comincio, a Manhattan peddler who died in 1925 leaving an estate...
Naturally it was not a question of money. It was a question of principle. The King contended that Peddler Comincio, after 41 years residence in the U. S. (during which time he was not naturalized), died a subject of His Majesty and died intestate (without making a will). Therefore it was contended that in this case an Italian law which makes the King the "natural heir" of subjects who die intestate should apply. Last year a New York surrogate's court decided against His Majesty (TIME, July 8, 1929). The case was appealed...
...sustaining Surrogate James A. Foley's decision last week the Supreme Court of the State of New York decided that the estate of Peddler Comincio should revert to the State of New York as he died therein intestate and without relatives. "The contention that he may have been a subject of the King of Italy and not of New York," said the Court, "must be overruled. . . . His intent to abandon his domicile of origin and to establish and maintain a domicile in this country is clearly established...