Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1938
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A sign posted near Fairdale, Ore., cautioning sportsmen: "WARNING To HUNTERS — DONT Shoot until U see IT MOVE — it might be a W. P. A. worker." Coincidence In Detroit, year ago, Street Sweeper Joseph Figlock was furbishing up an alley when a baby plopped down from a fourth-story window, struck him on the head and shoulders, injured Joseph Figlock and itself but was not killed. Last fortnight, as Joseph Figlock was sweeping out another alley, two-year-old David Thomas fell from a fourth-story window, landed on ubiquitous Mr. Figlock with the...
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