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Housebroken. In Buffalo, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Delaney returned from a party, found a stranger asleep in their bed, noted that the intruder had also used Mr. Delaney's toothbrush and hair tonic...
Three Little Words. In Portland, Ore., John R. Polioudakis, proprietor of a grocery store, answering a stranger's query, was hit over the head with an iron pipe when he uttered the phrase: "Sorry, no cigarets...
...cannot help sighing over the end of 700 years of English history. For these great houses, next to our cathedrals and parish churches, are the most beautiful things we have to show to a visiting stranger, and they are a moving picture, of our island history. . . . What is to become of these pathetic white elephants which can neither be kept up nor sold...
June. A Dixon, Calif, newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother...
...glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...