The Archive · 1940

IN PARENTHESIS Fade-Out By Mummy!

Lim Elsie asked the other night, "What time are they going to switch on the black-out to-night, mummie?"

Misunderstanding A LITTLE evacuee visited the rectory, and the the rector's wife was perturbed at the child's ack of religious upbringing. "Haven't you any religious views?" she asked.

"No, answered the little girl, "but I have got some funny postcards." oe 236 Miles—and all for 4d.

Derective-Inspector Hare, Scotland Yard fingerprint expert, made the return journey 236 miles from London to Bristol to give evidence recently in a case involving fourpence.

Konald Eagar khas, aged 18, and Leonard William Metcalfe, age 18, were committed for trial on charges of stealing the fourpence from a machine in a cafe.

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