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...town garbage dump in St. Johnsbury, Vt. (pop. 10,500), the body of a week-old baby was found wrapped in brown paper. A hospital shirt led police to the baby's mother. She admitted disposing of the body, but denied killing the baby or seeing it die. She had taken her illegitimate child from the hospital soon after its birth, she said, left it with a married couple from Plymouth, N.H., who had a child of their...
...midpoint in the Civil War, some of Abraham Lincoln's fellow Republicans wanted him to dump Secretary of State Seward, as the "unseen hand" and "evil genius" who would not press for the immediate abolition of slavery. The dissidents, all congressional extremists, met secretly so as not to broadcast their lack of confidence in the Government at a perilous moment. Lincoln found out about the plot, maneuvered the extremists into backing down...
...Oakwood, Ohio, when the city tried to claim $7,220, found by five trash collectors in a city dump, on the grounds that all collected trash is city property, Judge Don Thomas awarded the money to its finders, because "U.S. currency is not in the category of waste paper or waste of any kind...
Buried deep in a Cambridge city dump are a few ashes which once were the constitution of Radcliffe's Idler club. They get there last year when a former Radcliffe Student Government official threw away the main body of the constitution while "cleaning out" the Student Government files...
...been receiving TIME-readers' contributions toward a fund for repairing the damage. Some had given money to Presbyterian Ye when TIME first told about his efforts to organize his first parish in 1948 among the swarms of poor children living in packing cases in Seoul's city dump. Others, hearing about him for the first time, wanted to help...