SAVED BY A CIGARETTE.
By the simple act of offering a cigarette, a policeman of Bamberg. North Bavaria, prevented a would-be suicide from taking hie life. The suicide, Albrecht Samen, bad become depressed through ill-health and had jumped into the river. He was 100 yards from the shore and swimming feebly when a policeman saw him. Samen paid no attention to his shouts until the policeman took out a cigarette and offered it to him. He thereupon swam ashore, accepted the proffered cigarette, and returned to the Kutzenbery Nursing Home, from which he had disappeared the same morning. On the Trail. A man lost a valuable dog. and advertised in a newspaper, offering a substantial reward, but got no replies. He called at the office. “I want to see the advertising manager,’’ he said. “He’s out." said the office-boy. “The editor will do, then.’’ “Well, he's out, too, sir.” “Well, I’ll see the chief reporter.” “He’s out, sir.” “Great Scott! la everybody out?" «y en __they’re all looking for yonr dog."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3485, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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171SAVED BY A CIGARETTE. Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3485, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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