NEWS CURIOSITIES.
JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. Something new in golfing prizes is being . given away at the Lukeude Country Club, of Hollywood. A lawyer has just otfeivd u. free divorce as a reward for a low .score. A road worker at Quintar, Kansas, dug up an old kettle. He was jubilant when he found it stuffed full of notes', to tho value of £100. But, less jubilant when ha found that the notes were all counterfeit ones. A motorist saw an auction going on by the side of a. road near Buluwayo. Ho stopped his car and joined in the bidding, which started at £10. At the end tho » motorist found lie had bought a gold mine for £300. Ellis Parker, of Xew Jersey, a wcllaiiowii American detective, had to learn from the newspapers that his fourth son, aged 22, bad eloped with a 10-year-old. neighbour. It is the fourth of his children who have got married the same way.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)
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