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Show MADE POOR RENT COLLECTOR Indianapolis Man Evidently Too Good-Natured Good-Natured to Succeed in That Line of Business. Bachelor Joe Stokes, the druggist, never gets peace from his story-telling friends. Toe owns some rental property in one of the industrial districts. Things have been a bit slow in industry lately and Joe has had trouble collecting his rents. Ills real estate broker constantly con-stantly was returning word that ha could not collect. "I'll go out and collect it myself," Mr. Stokes said, a bit peevishly thai is, if Joe ever gets that way. Anyhow, a day or two later Joe started out on a rental collection tour. Late that afternoon he returned to his drug store. An unusual little smile was working at the corners of Joe's mouth. "Any luck?" one of the clerks inquired. in-quired. "Any luck 7 Boy, you're crazy 1 Instead In-stead of paying mo they borrowed money from me everywhere I went." Indianapolis News. |