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fMmerica's "keep clean" mama ts a boon to the folks who wash the nation's dirty socks,
WHEN an incoming bundle is shaken onto the sorting table in a laundry plant, practically anything, literally speaking, is apt to come tumbling out of it. ^ At a Mississippi laundry, a young car-hop took a bundle from a drive-in customer and nonchalantly tossed it on the receiving counter. He was startled out of his composure, howI ever, when a loud yelp came from the bundle as it landed. Opening the bundle, attendants found a frisky puppy who made good friends with them before his owner came back to pick him up.
In Virginia, a black kitten was not so lucky. She spent almost two days in a laundry bundle and had to be fed a saucerful of milk to revive her after this harrowing experience.
Cats and kittens seem to have a
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special fondness for laundry bundles, perhaps because of the soft comfort and warmth the linen offers. Classic example of the cat that went to the laundry is the tabby that gave birth to four kittens en route. It happened in Brooklyn.
In Milwaukee, a man stuffed $632 into a pillowcase for safe-keeping. Later he forgot about this and sent the improvised vault to the laundry with the rest of the family wash. The bills went completely through the washing cycle before being discovered. All of them were returned to the owner completely clean — and dried. Large bills, totahng $17,000, were found in another pillowcase in the laundry of the Hotel Plaza in New York. They were returned before the owner even realized the money was gone.
A gold ring with a diamond valued at $500 was found by a laundry near White Plains, New York, and returned to its owner. And a two-carat