Hope Star in Hope, Arkansas

Rat nests, missing bills lead to unlikely culprit

In Greenville Mississippi Policeman Earl Nelson found fifteen one dollar bills missing from an office desk but a mother rat had pulled them from a drawer and feathered her nest for eight babies in the desk rear. In Chilmark Massachusetts ration board officials granted Goldie Norton a six month one gallon gasoline allotment for a flatiron. Maryland and Massachusetts have capitol buildings dating from before the Revolution.