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Show STRANGE AS IT SEEMS byJohnllix , ( rVL - ?rri2 - IV CM. ISUCHfWWN Km ncton MM I J mi TWO M W5 V l ix iw iriy , CTKjfll V xi ' 80,000 NfWf PHt MOON 'UNPSMS MOOH' C - vicnm im ifoTM-ctMiuRy (' ' .- -fi-3Z --W LANDLORD OF THE I'MVERSE ... One warm night in May, 1936, Lindsay sat out In the park gaslng spellbound at the fullness of the moon. A terrifying idea seised him so terrifying that he pondered 13 months before acting on It Then, In June, 1M7, he paid a visit to the Irwin county, Ua., courthouse and amazed the clerks there by filing general warranty original claim deerli to the moon, sun, stars and other "islands of space" and alll unclaimed oceana of this world! "No man will ever again have the power to hold so much property, o much wealth," Mr. Lindsay says. And herein lay his problrimAt n loss over what to do with his unlimited holdings, Lindsay last August drew up a will. In it he directed: ". . . that the portion of my property commonly called The Moon' and located in 'Lindsay's Archipelago' (commonly called The Sky") shall at my death become the property of all persons who bear the name of 'Lindsay and to their heirs forever." Not entirely a dreamer, Lindsay turned his more mundane holdings to practical purposes. He advertised for sale the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and found immediate buyers In Francis W. Hanley of Pittsburgh, Albert E. Anatls of the same city and Mrs. Flora Fisher of New York City, respectively. (Copyright, 1937, for The Telegram! |