Article: Did a phantom stop their draft? // THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS CHECK . . . AND OTHER ODDITIES

People sometimes think we make up letters we get. We don't have to. Some of the situations we get into are, well, different. Here's a sample. Can you help us find a check? We wrote one payable to my daughter's school. But we learned the bank, Independence Bank of Chicago, placed a stop payment on it five days before we even wrote it!

How could someone do this? Mental telepathy? What? I've been to Independence, but no one has any answers. We don't even know what happened to the money. MRS. G.

A. If you hear us humming the theme song from the "Twilight Zone," it's because that's where we must be. Bank officials insist they received a cancellation call.

The school apparently got its ...

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