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Aching Back. In Clinton, Iowa, Carl Martinsen, 74, gratefully submitted to a rheumatism "rubdown" treatment by a couple of sidewalk healers claiming to have curative powers, minutes later discovered his wallet with $2,200 was gone...
Fine Grinding. In Wilmington, Del., John Dudek, 70, who lost a wallet containing $51.62 in 1929, was astounded when a woman rang his doorbell and handed him the wallet, explaining: "It was like a God-sent gift. But we're good Christian people, and for 28 years we thought, on and off, of the money. So we finally decided we'd better return...
LONG before the camera made possible the snapshot in the wallet, a man who cared to. carry about the likeness of his wife or children had to commission an artist. The demand for such likenesses, to hang on watch fobs or dangle in gold lockets, fostered the exacting art of painting watercolor portraits on small circles and squares of ivory. The genteel custom flourished in New England in the mid-18th century, died out a century later. Last week, in conjunction with the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts put on view a choice selection...
Police officers seized Krupnick after he had picked up a wallet, presumed to belong to one of the girls, and had taken it aside to examine...
Legal counsel for Krupnick entered a plea of "not guilty" for Krupnick, admitting that the wallet had been examined, but denying the charge of larceny...