Miscellany: Parlor

In Sedalia, Mo., in Mrs. C. L. Baker's specially-refrigerated parlor, lay the month-dead body of her husband, awaiting completion of a mausoleum. Explained Widow Baker: "I couldn't bear to think of having his body covered with dirt, so I just brought it home."

Corntest

At the Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women's corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women's record of 25 ears. Ed ("Korn King") Kottwitz won the men's championship with a world's record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women's record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz kept his championship by chomping down 50 ears.

Sleepwalker

In Carlisle, Pa., Walter Knaube sleepwalked barefoot out of his house, was wakened in the mountains eight miles away by a railroad whistle.

Evangelist

In Des Moines, where he was conducting evangelistic services at the Pentecostal Church of God, Dr. Charles Arthur De Bussy Du Bugginsdale Vincent Maurice John Courtney Hetherington, 45, was arrested on a charge of stealing Bibles in Detroit.

Boys

In Manhattan, twelve small boys went to court, had Henry Christ, 18, sent to jail for five days for throwing their pet poodle out of a second-story window.

Scripture

In Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Mary Cronin, 34, sinned, brooded. It was her eyes which had led her to sin and the Bible said, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out."* When a doctor got to her, Mary Cronin, armed with a safety pin, had dug out her right eye, most of her left.

Sensation

In Chicago, Andrew Johnson, 44, who had previously lost both feet in an accident, was brought to a hospital with both hands mangled. Explained he: "I wanted to see how it would feel to have a train run over my hands."

Reunion

In Milledgeville, Ga., Roy McCullough was sent to prison for a misdemeanor, found his father Alvin, whom he had not seen for 21 years, in the death cell awaiting execution for murder.